From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.0rc1) Gecko/20020417 BuildID: 2002041711 Mozilla is totally unusable for me: fonts in the GUI are about 250 pixels tall!!! This has been going on since release 0.9.4 already, and still has not been fixed. It may or may not have something to do with the way fonts are handled in SuSE linux 7.3, but I haven't been able to pinpoint the problem then, and in any case, this really MUST be solved. Logging in as another user, such as root, makes the problem go away. However, copying over all relevant config files and directories, such as ~/.mozilla, ~/.gnome* ~/.gtkrc, with regard to setting the right ownership and permissions on these files, do NOT make the problem go away for my normal user account. This has the side effect of not being able to access my email anymore. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Install SuSE linux 7.3 2.Install any mozilla since 0.9.4 with the mozilla installer. 3.Just use it normally, and voila, there it is. Actual Results: Mozilla diplays the fonts in it's GUI, (not those in it's browser sub-window) in some absolutely HUGE font.I'm talking fonts so huge, that only 7 characters will fit side by side on a 2048x1536 screen. This of course causes the Mozilla window to be 10x10 screen big, making it totally unusable, and incidentally using up all videomemory. I can change the actual font used in the GUI, but not its size. Expected Results: I expect mozilla to display normal fonts in its GUI, maybe even a little small, because of the screen size. I also expect to be able to change this font, via the normal gtk-theming mechanism. I have a screenshot up at http://www.lorentz.leidenuniv.nl/~roland/

Looks like bug 104345

do other GTK applications (eg gnumeric) have normal-sized fonts?

Comments from Roland: Yes, they have the fonts I specify in .gtkrc, or rather, that I set in the gtk-theming part of the gnome control center, but that is written in ~/.gtkrc I have to use custom font because otherwise all gtk applications have unreadably small fonts. (at 2048x1536) --------------------------------------------- Roland, what does xdpyinfo say the DPI of your setup is? Is mozilla set to use the system DPI? Does setting Mozilla to use a DPI of "96" (in Font preferences) and then restarting Mozilla help?

Reporter, have you changed the preference for the display resolution in preferences->appearence->fonts? If you cannot use Mozilla to change that back because of the big fonts try to find your prefs.js file (.mozilla/<profname>/<something>.slt/prefs.js) while mozilla is not started and edit it in a text editor (after backing up). If you find a line like this: user_pref("browser.display.screen_resolution", <nnn>); where <nnn> is a number, delete it. Please tell us if you found that line and if deleting it changed anything.

Mail from Roland: see my xdpyinfo below; I'm running at 144x144 dpi^2. Mozilla was already running at 96 dpi, but any other setting is just as unusable. It looks as if there is no difference at all. I still think there is a serious problem with fonts in mozilla. Let me know if I can do any other tests. screen #0: dimensions: 2048x1536 pixels (361x271 millimeters) resolution: 144x144 dots per inch

This is probably something wrong with the nsSystemFontGTK stuff at the end of nsDeviceContextGTK.cpp. I'm not sure how to debug it, though, without access to the machine. I guess I could build a build with debugging printfs in it and post it somewhere...

evicting from UID

This really really really looks like bug 104345, which was WFM'ed because the reporter changed distros and isn't seeing it any more.. Roland: Could you try to disable TrueType fonts for X, and see if that makes any difference? (either in your XF86Config(-4) file or xfs' config).

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 104345 ***