[02:26] I'm having a problem. My fonts are being displayed at 120dpi even when I set it to 96dpi. The only way I can seem to get 96dpi is to force it with startx. [02:26] This has only happened to me in Xubuntu. [02:36] Maybe a simple question.... Which is lighter on resources, Gnome or KDE? [02:36] Gnome is [02:36] Thanks [02:36] welcome [02:37] xodiak: xfce is lighter still, try xubuntu! :) [02:43] Cheesasaurus_Rex: and, actually, kde is lighter on memory than gnome by most benchmarks i've seen. [02:44] I'll believe that [02:44] but Ubuntu requires less RAM to run than Kubuntu [02:44] although that doesn't necessarily mean that KDE requires more than gnome... [02:46] Here, for example: http://ktown.kde.org/~seli/memory/desktop_benchmark.html :) [02:47] hm, interesting [02:47] so it uses less resources despite all that bloat, eh? [02:47] would you happen to have an answer to my question above, godlygeek? [02:47] i don't know anything about fonts, i'm afraid... [02:48] i don't even know how you'd be able to tell that you're getting 120 instead of 96 dpi fonts... :) [02:48] you'd know [02:48] The fonts would be sort of huge [02:49] why would the number of dots per inch affect the number of characters per inch? [02:49] if it does, i'd expect larger DPI to mean smaller font sizes... [02:50] it uses more dots to draw the font [02:50] that's why [02:51] that only makes sense if dots == pixels... [02:51] they do [02:52] but, you can't change the number of pixels per inch... [02:52] that's fixed... [02:52] No, but you can change how many pixels they use for fonts [02:52] but then that's not dpi... it's dots per glyph, or something... [02:53] I didn't come up with the terminology [02:53] so you'll have to ask someone else that [02:56] help [02:56] Cheesasaurus_Rex: xdpyinfo | grep resolution ? [02:57] that gives me 121x120 when I don't force it with startx, but that shouldn't matter [02:58] you can set the font DPI in the User Interface in the Settings Manager [02:58] I have it set to 96 there, and it's still giving me 120dpi fonts [03:00] are you passing startx any params? [03:01] when I boot normally, no [03:01] you said that it works when you use startx, right? [03:01] when I do startx -- -dpi "96x96" yeah [03:02] I think it might be a driver issue since it was fine until I installed the nvidia driver [03:02] then the problem is that x isn't using 96 dpi by default - which has nothing to do with the xubuntu settings... [03:02] no [03:02] even if it uses 121x120, it should use 96 dpi [03:02] no? [03:02] i don't think it can... [03:02] because before I installed this driver [03:02] I would get 96dpi [03:03] but that's probably because the nvidia driver install regenerated xorg.conf... [03:03] and removed the part that would allow for 96 dpi fonts. [03:03] It shouldn't because it wasn't there to begin with. [03:03] what's this do: grep DisplaySize /etc/X11/xorg.conf [03:06] nothing, but it was never there to begin with, even in a backup before I installed the driver in Xubuntu [03:06] *not even [03:08] Cheesasaurus_Rex: *shrug*... are you against adding it and seeing if it makes things work? [03:08] I already tried that [03:08] I only came here as a last resort :/ [03:10] well... to me it would make sense that the app can't override settings in the server... [03:11] but to me it doesn't, because it did before, until I got the driver [03:12] that's proof, though, that it's a change at the server level that's affecting things. [03:12] that might mean that the old driver chose 96 dpi as its default res, and the nvidia one chooses 120... [03:12] When you add the DisplaySize setting to the "Monitor" section, does /var/log/Xorg.log report 96 dpi? [03:14] no, it didn't [03:14] what did you put for DisplaySize, and what's your monitor's resolution? [03:15] I don't remember, but I know that didn't work. [03:15] It's 1440x900. [03:17] if it broke when you changed something at the server level, and you can fix it by changing a server parameter, there's no way you can fix it without changing something at the server level... [03:18] that's not font-specific, that's just knowledge of the architecture... [03:18] it means that the old driver did something differently from the new driver WRT choosing DPI... [03:18] and that you'll need to tell the new driver what to use for the DPI. [03:18] well [03:19] I've used this driver in Ubuntu too [03:19] (as opposed to Xubuntu) [03:19] without this problem [03:20] *shrug* - alright, maybe i'm wrong... but everything i'm seeing on the internet says that you need to have the x-server running at the desired DPI before tweaking anything with the fonts. [03:33] Cheesasaurus_Rex: btw - the supposed bloat of KDE apps is because of their massive shared libraries... [03:33] Cheesasaurus_Rex: but, that means that the cost for running a single KDE app is relatively much greater than running an entire desktop, where the shared libraries are actually being shared. [04:04] godlygeek: catching up here. I am on xubuntu because this old system can't handle ubuntu too well. (don't remember where) but I saw an option where I could choose between Gnome and KDE [04:05] Gnome was selected by default so I thought that I was using it. (total noob here so forgive the stupidity) [04:54] please help me i can't restart cups in a terminal i wrote sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart it's says ok. but my printer hp 3740 is flinking [06:01] <___Alex___> is xubuntu 8.04 less buggy than it's gnomish cousin? [06:03] <___Alex___> how about xubuntu 8.04 vs 7.10? are they equally stable, or is 7.10 more stable? [06:10] please define how 'stablility' should be measured? To me it sounds like a meanlingless word [06:17] like BSD, break it down to sizes you're comfortable working with... [06:34] http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/883/av1894tg1.gif