Title text is smaller than user's default, and body's even smaller

I can confirm this

Sébastien,

It seems like a dpi detection issue with gnome. However, we thought that by sticking to Cairo's view of the font size we would be able to avoid that kind of issues. Can you recommend a way to address the problem in notify-osd? Or is there an incoming upstream change that we should know about?

Thanks

why do you think that's a GNOME bug? GNOME has a gconf key which allows to set the dpi xsettings which gtk, etc use then but the default is to use the xorg value

Sebastien Bacher wrote:
> why do you think that's a GNOME bug? GNOME has a gconf key which allows
> to set the dpi xsettings which gtk, etc use then but the default is to
> use the xorg value
>
Matthew, can you check the value of "/desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi"
on your system and report whether Gnome and the X server agree on the
DPI value. If not, can you try removing the gconf key and see if your
test still fails.

I just wanted to add that I recently changed my fonts size to 9 and now the notifications bubbles are bigger and the text inside is bigger and more readable. Before this my font size was default (10) and I was affected by this bug.

David, on a fresh alpha 6 install, the Appearance preferences still reported 114 dpi. However, gconf-editor reports that "/desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi" has "<no value>". A few seconds after I navigated to that area in gconf-editor, the font size for everything shrank, and the Appearance preferences reported 96 dpi. The notification bubble text is now even smaller, with the heading text still smaller than the standard application font.

Mat Tomaszewski just reproduced this at both the default 113 dpi and (after logging out and logging in again) at 96 dpi. So I doubt this has anything to do with dpi.

if you see this, could you please tell me your

 1. your dpi as reported by xdpyinfo | grep resolution
 2. your dpi in /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi
 3. the output of gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/font_name

Thanks!

For the totally lazy use this (just cut&paste into a terminal):

clear ; echo -e "gconf-DPI:\t `gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/font_rendering/dpi`" ; echo -e "gconf-font-name: `gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/font_name`"; echo -e "Xorg-DPI:\t `xdpyinfo | grep resolu|cut -f7 -d" "`"

Here's my output:

gconf-DPI: 100
gconf-font-name: Candara 9
Xorg-DPI: 101x100

Same happening to me in xubuntu but the other way around, i have Sans 8 and DPI 73 and notify-osd doesn't seem to adapt to this fonts and the are really huge.

Did anybody happen to try notify-osd trunk?! Just a question.

Same behaviour, Mirco.

Please give notify-osd 0.9.16 a try. Apart from that I'll add gconf-keys for a number of notify-osd's rendering properties, thus offering some flexibility (title-/body-font, bubble-bg-color, text-fg-color, text-shadow-color, bubble-bg-opacity).

In what version was this fixed? I'm still seeing really small fonts in karmic as of nov. 15th...

do i need to search for another version?? my system is updated and i still getting the small text in karmic as of nov 26

I can't see the text in the dialog because it's too small!
Look at the screenshot.

My output is this:

gconf-DPI: 96
gconf-font-name: Sans 8.5
Xorg-DPI: 96x96

I confirm the bug.
It happens when I set the Application Font's size to 8.5 in the Appearance options.

I am adding an attachment to show it :)