Bug 179962

Summary:	kwin fonts seem to be using a different DPI
Product:	[Plasma] kwin	Reporter:	Mary Ellen Foster <mefoster>
Component:	general	Assignee:	KWin default assignee <kwin-bugs-null>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	christian, finex, lure, rdieter, rpetrick
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Compiled Sources
OS:	Unspecified
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
Sentry Crash Report:
Attachments:	System settings window

Description Mary Ellen Foster 2009-01-07 22:21:52 UTC

Version:            (using Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources

[ I initially filed this at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=468451 and Rex Dieter suggested that I file it here upstream instead. My original bug was with a Fedora 10 pre-release, but I'm still seeing this with Fedora 10 + KDE 4.2 beta 2 from kde-redhat ]

I'm running KDE 4 on an Acer One mini-laptop with a DPI of 133x135 (according to xdpyinfo). It seems that the fonts in window title bars, the start menu, and the task bar are using a different DPI than the rest of the system: they show up as significantly smaller than what is ostensibly the same font inside windows.

I'll attach a screenshot of the system settings dialogue -- note the difference between the 9-point text in the "Window title" field and the actual window title bar.

A workaround is to force the fonts DPI to 120 -- then all of the fonts on the screen agree with each other.

I've also seen similar symptoms on a laptop with 122x122 DPI.

Comment 1 Mary Ellen Foster 2009-01-07 22:24:32 UTC

Created attachment 30019 [details]
System settings window

Note the difference between the selected "Window titlebar" font and the actual window titlebar

Comment 2 Mary Ellen Foster 2009-01-07 22:27:36 UTC

Sorry for the bad formatting (lack of paragraphs) above -- probably a cut-and-paste issue

Comment 3 Mary Ellen Foster 2009-04-17 14:16:21 UTC

This has also been an issue on a new laptop with a similarly high DPI: 15.4" screen, 1920x1200 resolution => 147x148 (or so) DPI. Some fonts showed up really big, others showed up really tiny, and forcing font DPI to 120 gets things mostly working okay but that's not satisfying.

Comment 4 Luka Renko 2009-06-29 13:19:53 UTC

I cannot reproduce this on Kubuntu with KDE 4.2.4. Which version of KDE do you run now?

Comment 5 christian 2009-06-29 18:49:48 UTC

I can confirm that this issue exists on Fedora 11, KDE 4.2.4 on a Thinkpad x301. It also seems to involve a race, since every now and then when I log into KDE the fonts are displayed correctly. Most of the times though KWin's fonts are smaller, as Mary Ellen has pointed out.

Comment 6 Christoph Feck 2009-06-30 08:58:47 UTC

This might be a duplicate of bug 171683. If you use ATI, try open source driver (radeon/radeonhd) instead of fglrx.

Comment 7 Mary Ellen Foster 2009-06-30 11:03:53 UTC

I'm using the Intel driver on both laptops where I see this, for what it's worth ...

Comment 8 christian 2009-06-30 20:26:58 UTC

Same here, the i915 driver.

Comment 9 FiNeX 2010-10-10 18:14:29 UTC

Someone with nvidia driver is able to reproduce this bug too?

Anyway I agree with Christoph, this could be a duplicate of bug #171683

Comment 10 Thomas Lübking 2012-03-18 13:50:40 UTC

assuming dupe. if anybody can cause this with "kwin --replace&" during the session, please stand up :-)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 260943 ***