SAX2 Altered my font size! What?

[Rayek]

Okay, so once I had everything figured out, everything was working on my laptop smoothly, I go and mess it up, but it still really doesn't make any sense.

I just bought an Eee 1000HE and the screen displays at a maximum of 1024x600 resolution, and needless to say, that leaves a bit to be desired, especially because the Virtualization tools in Yast (among other dialog screens) don't resize, so I can't click 'Next' or anything; they're hidden below the end of the screen.

So, I tried changing the resolution in Sax2 and it worked, as far as I could tell, I could see the dialogs at the bottom of the screen (everything was tiny, but that's to be expected). After I finished I used Sax2 again to revert back to the old 1024x600 resolution, and the fonts were displayed... tiny.

Nothing in my fonts settings had changed at all, and when I try to change it to make it more readable, one thing or another was left out, when I force DPI in the configuration menu, Firefox fonts displayed correctly, but popup dialogs, like a sudo prompt, would be huge. The login screen, context menus, everything has changed because I changed my resolution once, and I can't get it back; one thing or another is either too readable or completely unreadable, reverting back to the default in the KDE menu makes everything tiny again.

My questions: is there a way for Yast or Sax2 to probe my system configuration as it did during install and adjust the settings to their original default? How/why did this happen, and what can I do to prevent it next time? How does everyone view windows that are too tall for the screen and won't resize ?

Thanks for the help.

[malcolmlewis]

Okay, so once I had everything figured out, everything was working on my
laptop smoothly, I go and mess it up, but it still really doesn't make
any sense.

I just bought an Eee 1000HE and the screen displays at a maximum of
1024x600 resolution, and needless to say, that leaves a bit to be
desired, especially because the Virtualization tools in Yast (among
other dialog screens) don't resize, so I can't click 'Next' or anything;
they're hidden below the end of the screen.

So, I tried changing the resolution in Sax2 and it worked, as far as I
could tell, I could see the dialogs at the bottom of the screen
(everything was tiny, but that's to be expected). After I finished I
used Sax2 again to revert back to the old 1024x600 resolution, and the
fonts were displayed... tiny.

Nothing in my fonts settings had changed at all, and when I try to
change it to make it more readable, one thing or another was left out,
when I force DPI in the configuration menu, Firefox fonts displayed
correctly, but popup dialogs, like a sudo prompt, would be huge. The
login screen, context menus, everything has changed because I changed my
resolution once, and I can't get it back; one thing or another is either
too readable or completely unreadable, reverting back to the default in
the KDE menu makes everything tiny again.

My questions: is there a way for Yast or Sax2 to probe my system
configuration as it did during install and adjust the settings to their
original default? How/why did this happen, and what can I do to prevent
it next time? How does everyone view windows that are too tall for the
screen and won't resize ?

Thanks for the help.

Hi
I'm using the same system here as well and with no issues with the
dialogs at all in YaST, every thing resizes fine?

Here is a copy of my xorg.conf for you to compare against.
<http://www.nopaste.com/p/aKbRFV3CH>

If you use the mouse and the alt key to move windows (alt+left-click)

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Cheers Malcolm ��� (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.1 (i586) Kernel 2.6.27.19-3.2-pae
up 0:23, 1 user, load average: 0.32, 0.24, 0.25
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME

[Rayek]

Thanks for the help. I looked through the xorg.conf file and a lot of variables were there, I had way more resolution options, and there was a line in the "Monitor" section that isn't there with your configuration that specifies a 305 230 display size, and I think that was the culprit. Why SaX2 would edit this is kinda beyond me, but everything is 'fixed' now, displaying correctly.

Thanks for your help!

[malcolmlewis]

Thanks for the help. I looked through the xorg.conf file and a lot of
variables were there, I had way more resolution options, and there was a
line in the "Monitor" section that isn't there with your configuration
that specifies a 305 230 display size, and I think that was the culprit.
Why SaX2 would edit this is kinda beyond me, but everything is 'fixed'
now, displaying correctly.

Thanks for your help!

Hi
Glad I could help, just upgraded the HDD in mine to a 250GB one
Maybe we can trade notes sometime on things that aren't/are working

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Cheers Malcolm ��� (Linux Counter #276890)
openSUSE 11.1 (i586) Kernel 2.6.27.19-3.2-pae
up 1:14, 2 users, load average: 0.60, 0.54, 0.48
ASUS eeePC 1000HE ATOM N280 1.66GHz | GPU Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME