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Posted: Jan. 20 2005,21:39 QUOTE
I'm using 0.9.2. I have a floppy install, so I'm not changing versions anytime soon. I installed this new fluxbox version, and everything is bigger, which sucks because I have a small res. There is also thin white lines around everything, which makes everything look terrible. Even when I use transparency, the white lines are nontransparent. To try to fix these problems, I looked through the init file for anything having to do with fonts. Nothing, except for antiantilizing, which is disabled. Yesterday, I tried to install the Artwitz(sp?) fonts. No luck. The font size doesn't change when I switch themes. I will post before(old fluxbox) and after(new ver.) screenshots of my desktop today, so you can see for yourself.
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Posted: Jan. 20 2005,22:08 QUOTE
BEFORE: http://img45.exs.cx/img45/1236/before9sw.png
AFTER: http://img11.exs.cx/img11/8404/after7vc.png
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Posted: Jan. 20 2005,23:39 QUOTE
Okay, thanks for the screenshots.  That helps a lot.  

Something went wacky with the font itself rather than the font size.  In your first screenshot you're using 'fixed', which is a standard terminal font.  In the second screenshot you have some serif thingy...I don't know what it is exactly but it's definitely an entirely different font.

I saw the same font yesterday while messing with fluxbox in DSL.  I'm not sure if this applies, but in my case it had to do with trying to use a style with a typo in the path.  I guess it just used a default font or something.  Fixing the path in init fixed my problem.

I recommend checking the init to see if the proper style file is listed, and after that checking the style file itself to see if it's using a font which exists on your system.

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Posted: Jan. 20 2005,23:42 QUOTE
I'm pretty new with DSL and Linux. How do I find out which fonts are already installed on my system? And, yes, now that I look at theme both side by side I can see that the size is not only different, by the actual font as well.
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Posted: Jan. 21 2005,03:23 QUOTE
you can use the xfontsel application....I'm sure there are other ways, but I've never been an expert on fonts.

I tested a couple of things with flux-0.9.11 today....one was to load a style with no font specified.  This resulted in fluxbox using fixed.  The other test was to load a style with a non-existent font (listed a font in the style, but it didn't really exist).  This resulted in some large font being used.  It wasn't the same one, but was definitely larger.

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