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List:       openoffice-users
Subject:    Re: Problem with menu fonts
From:       "G. Roderick Singleton" <grsingleton () openoffice ! org>
Date:       2003-10-31 14:23:38
Message-ID: bntr8m$23u$1 () sea ! gmane ! org
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Nicu Buculei wrote:
> Please note that users@openoffice.org is a mailing list and the best 
> email address you can use when you have a users problem or question 
> about OpenOffice.
> However please note that it is a moderated email list and most replies 
> *only* go to the mailing list so you should really consider sending an 
> email to users-subscribe@openoffice.org.
> 
> alan@atmsite.net wrote:
> 
>> I am a complete newbie to the Linux operating system. Although I do have
>> considerable computer experience both in DOS and Windows.  I recently 
>> downloaded
>> Red Hat 9 and received OpenOffice as part of that package. When I open 
>> any of
>> the applications in OpenOffice the screens appear all messed up 
>> because the
>> fonts are huge. For example the menu item named "file" appears on my 
>> screen to
>> be about 5 inches high. All the other applications work just fine. It 
>> is only
>> the OpenOffice applications that have this problem.
>>
>> Any help in correcting this problem would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> 
> this is a known problem in Red Hat 9, if i remember correctly, is about 
> using some different measurement units when defining resolution
> i believe you have to adjust the X Window settings
> 
> hope someone more knowledgeable will give a more precise answer
> 

It's an Xfree86 problem under RH. From my experience, as you quoted but 
forgot to attribute, the problem appears to be in how XFree stores the 
parameters. You set them but they are not updated universally even after 
a reboot. The trick seems to be to do the setup twice and do keep a copy 
of and XF86Config that works.



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