fonts ridiculously small after upgrading to Kubuntu 8.10 [solved]

[eguillou76]

I've just upgraded to kubuntu 8.10 and the font is so small that it's impossible to read anything.
Does someone have a clue how to fix this issue?

thanx
erwan

[HavocXphere]

Re: fonts ridiculously small after upgrading to Kubuntu 8.10

Try changing font size under System settings->appearance->fonts.

[eguillou76]

Re: fonts ridiculously small after upgrading to Kubuntu 8.10

I wish I could but it is sa small that I cant read what's on screen so I just can't change anything from the apearance screen!
is it possible to do something with a command line?

[Nate]

Re: fonts ridiculously small after upgrading to Kubuntu 8.10

You could try logging out, then renaming your .kde folder, then logging back in. The .kde folder will be rebuilt with system defaults and that might fix the issue.

[dragon76]

Re: fonts ridiculously small after upgrading to Kubuntu 8.10

This happened to me as well after enabling the nvidia restricted drivers. If you know how to edit a text file from the command line you can do the following.

in ~/.kde/share/config/kcmfonts

change or add the line

forceFontDPI=90

This should get you a usable situation and then you can fine tune from the system settings gui.

[eguillou76]

Re: fonts ridiculously small after upgrading to Kubuntu 8.10

thanx guys for your answer, unfortunately I don't have the kcmfonts file and I can't rename the .kde folder as the system tells me that it's not a folder!
any other idea?

[Snowhog]

Re: fonts ridiculously small after upgrading to Kubuntu 8.10

kcmfonts is located in:
~/.kde/share/config
It's owned by you, the user.

Open any editor. Open the file ~/.kde/share/config/kcmfonts

[eguillou76]

Re: fonts ridiculously small after upgrading to Kubuntu 8.10

ok I managed to rename the .kde/ folder so it was rebuild but I stil got the same isue.

[eguillou76]

Re: fonts ridiculously small after upgrading to Kubuntu 8.10

thanx snowhog for your answer, but are you talking about KDE4 because I still can't find the file you are talking about even when logged as a user.
I created the kcmfonts file though but things remain the same....

[Snowhog]

Re: fonts ridiculously small after upgrading to Kubuntu 8.10

You're posting in Kubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex, so you are running KDE 4.1.4 (if you are up to date), or KDE 4.1.96 (rc1) if you are running the release candidate of KDE 4.2.

You said you did rename the .kde folder. Check in this renamed folder, then the sub-directory of share/config. You should find the kcmfonts file there. But, as you say you created this file, where did you put it, and what does it contain? My default kcmfonts file contains the following:

[General]
dontChangeAASettings=true
forceFontDPI=0

The permissions, ownership and group reflect:

-rw------- 1 paul paul

(of course, it reflects my user for owner/group)

[eguillou76]

Re: fonts ridiculously small after upgrading to Kubuntu 8.10

Thanks guy,
I didn't have the file but I created it in the ~/.kde/share/config folder on the same pattern as yours snowhog.
Now it is working with forceFontDPI=90

Thanks a lot you guys for helping me out!

[Snowhog]

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