232492 - GUI font size inconsistent with GTK2 user-font setting (font_name, gtk-font-name, gtk-theme-switch)

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Paul Hoepfner-Homme]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Firebird/0.7

I run Mozilla Firebird and it is compiled with GTK2 support. The GUI correctly 
uses my GTK2 theme as specified in .gtkrc-2.0, like all my other GTK2 apps. 
However, it does not heed the font size as specified by the "user-font" 
setting in .gtkrc-2.0. Here is my .gtkrc-2.0 file: 
 
include "/usr/share/themes/Xfce-smooth/gtk-2.0/gtkrc" 
style "user-font" 
{ 
  font_name="Tahoma 8" 
} 
widget_class "*" style "user-font" 
 
It seems to use a font size of 10 or 12 rather than 8. My other GTK2 apps 
properly display a point size of 8, but Firebird doesn't. 
 
Or perhaps Firebird is detecting the resolution improperly? My X resolution 
setting is 100x100 DPI. 
 
Anyhow, I've included a screenshot with Firebird beside Gaim, which are both 
GTK2 apps, so prove my point. 

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Run X at 100 DPI. 
2. Set up a GTK2 theme with a scalable font like Tahoma at some point size. 
3. Run Firebird. 
4. Run another GTK2 app like Gaim. 
5. Compare the GUI font size in Firebird to that of Gaim. 
Actual Results:  
Firebird's GUI font is larger than that of all other GTK2 apps. However, the 
font sizes in web pages displayed in Firebird look correct. 

Expected Results:  
Firebird's GUI font should be the same size as that of all other GTK2 apps. 

I'm using Firebird's default theme, and my GTK2 theme is Xfce-smooth (as seen 
in my .gtkrc-2.0 file in the description). 
I run Gentoo Linux.

Comment 1

[Paul Hoepfner-Homme]

Attachment: Screenshot comparing font size of Firebird to that of other GTK2 app

See how the font size of Firebird (left) is at least 3 or 4 points larger than
that of Gaim (right). Firebird is the only GTK2 app I have that doesn't heed
the font size setting in my .gtkrc-2.0 configuration file.

Comment 2

[Paul Hoepfner-Homme]

Has nobody been able to confirm this yet? It's still a bug with the most recent
version of Firefox. My laptop screen is pretty small, so it feels really clunky
and wasteful to have the user interface use such a large font.

Please let me know if you need more information. I'm very eager to see this bug
fixed! :)

Comment 3

[Jonathan Addleman]

I have problems with gtk2 fonts as well, though in my case, firebird seems to
ignore the gtk2 font setting entirely: both the size and the actual font family.
Instead it uses some sans serif no matter what my gtk2 settings are. This has
been true since I started using firefox, with version .4, and now I'm using a
recent (a few days ago) CVS build and seeing no change at all.

I've also tried deleting my .firefox dir completely, but to no avail.

Note that I'm not using any gnome stuff - I'm not sure if that might have
something to do with it or not. It shouldn't be necessary, in any case.

Comment 4

[thedude]

This happens for my system as well.  Firefox .8.  Debian based distro, in all my
window managers.  Although I don't use gnome so not sure if it would help
something there.  Basically as others have stated, the theme takes, but the menu
fonts are of a different type and size which stands out like a sore thumb.

Gtk ver 2.2.4.

Comment 5

[Nilson Cain]

WFM

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040613 Firefox/0.8.0+

Maybe try 0.9?

Comment 6

[Nile]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040727 Firefox/0.9.1+

Firefox ignores font family and font size as specified in my .gtkrc-2.0 file
which is written with the gtk-theme-switch app. Here's the .gtkrc-2.0 file:

[14:10:28][~] $ cat .gtkrc-2.0 
# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
include "/usr/share/themes/Mist/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

style "user-font"
{
  font_name="Sans 10"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

include "/home/nile/.gtkrc.mine"

# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT

Another details:
gtk+-2.4.4
windowmaker 0.80.2
xorg-x11-6.7
DPI Setting in firefox is "System Setting"

Also, I believe the following line in my /etc/X11/xorg.conf file affects font
sizes in firefox via DPI setting: 
    Option      "MonitorLayout" "TMDS"
When I change my DPI setting from "System Setting" to "96," fonts get obviously
larger.

Comment 7

[James Ravagni]

I'm still seeing this in Firefox 1.0PR and RC1 (Debian and offical builds).  No
matter what font and font size I use, Firefox doesn't pick it up at all.

Also, when I tried to set the UI font to Bitstream Vera Sans 10pt (my normal
GTK2 UI font) in userChrome.css, it's smaller than it should be.  No matter what
font and size I tried in GTK2 and Firefox via userChrome.css, they don't match.
 I'm not sure but could this be caused by Firefox using the X font server and
GTK2 using Pango?  Or is Firefox not picking up my resolution correctly, making
the sizes not match?


Debian Testing/Sarge
Linux kernel 2.4
Xfree86 4.3
Display resolution pref in Firefox is set to "system setting"

Comment 8

[Robin Monks]

Moving to core->GFX: Gtk...

Comment 9

[Arvind Autar]

(In reply to comment #8)
> Moving to core->GFX: Gtk...

Use:

gtk-font-name = "char digit"

instead of

font_name="char digit"

This closes #197491 ( http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=197491 )




arvind@neregeb:~$ cat .gtkrc-2.0.bak 
# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
include "/usr/share/themes/Default/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"

style "user-font"
{
  font_name="Helvetica 9"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

include "/home/arvind/.gtkrc-2.0.mine"

# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
arvind@neregeb:~$ cat .gtkrc-2.0
gtk-font-name = "Helvetica 9"
arvind@neregeb:~$ 


*.Bak was the previous gtkrc-2.0 ... 




Arvind Autar(In reply to comment #8)
> Moving to core->GFX: Gtk...

Comment 10

[Ashar Voultoiz]

Base resolution is probably hardcoded somewhere. Anywhere here are my tests:

debian testing with xfree 4.3.x

I use firefox under kde. When using gnome the gui font size looks ok (cause of
gnome-daemon-settings). I removed gnome entirely and then saw that all my gtk2
gui add a "sans 12" font, looking on google I grabbed some code for my gtkrc-2.0 :

   style "user-font" { font_name="Verdana 9" }
   widget_class "*" style "user-font"

This works well for all other gtk2 application I have (beep-media-player,
eclipse, xchat). But firefox ignore that.

I looked at the options and fount the resolution setting set to "system
default", changed it to something else, restarted firefox : surprise the GUI
font size changed ! Finally a setting of 76dpi works for me and give me the
correct size.

ldd follow, I am going to attach screenshots.

My xdpyinfo :
  dimensions:    1152x864 pixels (322x241 millimeters)
  resolution:    91x91 dots per inch


$ ldd /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/firefox-bin
        libmozjs.so => not found
        libxpcom.so => not found
        libplds4.so => /usr/lib/libplds4.so (0x45a10000)
        libplc4.so => /usr/lib/libplc4.so (0x45a4b000)
        libnspr4.so => /usr/lib/libnspr4.so (0x45a15000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libpthread.so.0 (0x46432000)
        libdl.so.2 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libdl.so.2 (0x46330000)
        libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x48764000)
        libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 (0x486da000)
        libatk-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libatk-1.0.so.0 (0x45b23000)
        libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgdk_pixbuf-2.0.so.0 (0x4865f000)
        libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoxft-1.0.so.0 (0x4875b000)
        libpangox-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangox-1.0.so.0 (0x48a49000)
        libpango-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpango-1.0.so.0 (0x48677000)
        libgobject-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (0xb7fb1000)
        libgmodule-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libgmodule-2.0.so.0 (0xb7fad000)
        libglib-2.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 (0xb7f2d000)
        libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x46335000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libm.so.6 (0x4630c000)
        libpng12.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpng12.so.0 (0x4676d000)
        libjpeg.so.62 => /usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62 (0x47494000)
        libz.so.1 => /usr/lib/libz.so.1 (0x46444000)
        libsmime3.so => /usr/lib/libsmime3.so (0xb7f08000)
        libssl3.so => /usr/lib/libssl3.so (0xb7ee6000)
        libnss3.so => /usr/lib/libnss3.so (0xb7e78000)
        libsoftokn3.so => /usr/lib/libsoftokn3.so (0xb7e06000)
        libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x46458000)
        libXp.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXp.so.6 (0xb7dfe000)
        libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x463fe000)
        libxpcom_compat.so => not found
        libstdc++.so.5 => /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.5 (0x464ba000)
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x464ad000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6 (0x461d5000)
        libXft.so.2 => /usr/lib/libXft.so.2 (0x48e20000)
        libfreetype.so.6 => /usr/lib/libfreetype.so.6 (0x46579000)
        libfontconfig.so.1 => /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1 (0x46628000)
        /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x459f7000)
        libXrandr.so.2 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXrandr.so.2 (0x48e4a000)
        libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x467ac000)
        libXcursor.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXcursor.so.1 (0x48e3f000)
        libXrender.so.1 => /usr/lib/libXrender.so.1 (0x48e35000)
        libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 => /usr/lib/libpangoft2-1.0.so.0 (0x486b2000)
        libSM.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6 (0x4640e000)
        libICE.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6 (0x46419000)
        libexpat.so.1 => /usr/lib/libexpat.so.1 (0x465fc000)
$

Comment 11

[Ashar Voultoiz]

Attachment: firefox1.04 debian with 72dpi resolution on a 91dpi xfree86

Comment 12

[Ashar Voultoiz]

Attachment: firefox1.04 debian with 76dpi resolution on a 91dpi xfree86

Comment 13

[Ashar Voultoiz]

Attachment: firefox1.04 debian with 96dpi resolution on a 91dpi xfree86

Comment 14

[Ashar Voultoiz]

So basicly, I believe the 'Display resolution' setting should apply to HTML
view only and not the GUI. Leave that stuff to gtk2rc || gnome || xfree instead.

Comment 15

[Antonis]

This bug exists in firefox 1.5 beta1. Firefox is the only gtk2 app that doesn't
respect .gtkrc-2.0

Comment 16

[logan]

*** Bug 222870 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 17

[logan]

tweaking summary, component

Comment 18

[Felix Miata]

Attachment: screenshot Firefox 1.5rc2 Fedora Core 4 100 DPI 1152x864

WFM with Firefox 1.5rc2 in FC4
control-center-2.10.1-6 (gnome-control-center)
gtk+-1.2.10-39
gtk2-2.6.7-4
xorg-x11-6.8.2-31
1152x864 screen resolution
100 DPI set via 'DisplaySize 291 219' in 'Section "Monitor"' in xorg.conf
100 DPI set via gnome-control-center
application font Verdana 10 set via gnome-control-center

Note 1: test page loaded in Firefox http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/auth/dpi-screen-window.html reports DPI of 103, but that's a Gecko bug summarized at http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/tmp/dpi-broken.html that I've not yet found recorded in the Bugzilla database.

Note 2: test system is a KDE primary desktop system on which I added via yum only those GTK & Gnome rpms required to make this screenshot: control-center, plus gaim, plus about 14 deps.

Comment 19

[Felix Miata]

Note that for comment 18 that gnome-control-center wrote the 100 dpi setting to ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/font_rendering/%gconf.xml (as one of 3 entries in file) and wrote verdana 10 to ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/interface/%gconf.xml (as only entry in file), not in any ~/.gtkrc* file.

Comment 20

[rpnpif]

Hi,
For me, This bug appeared with Firefox 2.0. No problem with 1.x.
xdpyinfo | grep resolution
  resolution:    65x65 dots per inch
with 800x600. The other applications have no font size problems.
Fonts are very large (about 16).
A home userChrome.css with  "font-size: 8pt !important" fixes.

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr; rv:1.8.1) Gecko/20061010 Firefox/2.0

Comment 22

[Julien "_FrnchFrgg_" RIVAUD]

    Works for me, both with gnome installed (setting in preferences/fonts) and
    without (setting with .gtkrc)

    Could you verify with a recent trunk (for instance Firefox 3b2) ?