Windows WAY out of scale

[Olaf Olson]

Thanks, Chris.

I went to a gnome login, and was mystified. Everything looks fine there, 
but trying to start any tools to modify things like fonts, sizes, 
whatever, results in nothing. The tools won't even start from the menu.

Short of reinstalling everything, what can I do to fix gnome?

Olaf


Chris Ruprecht wrote:

>Olaf, try to sign in to GNOME instead of KDE. You should be able to
>select that from your 'Session' menu on your login screen.
>
>Then you can set up the GNOME environment. I believe that it's not set
>up right and OpenOffice being a GNOME application is using the wrong
>settings.
>
>Best regards,
>Chris
>
>On Sat, 2004-09-11 at 22:28, Olaf Olson wrote:
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>>Despite having YDL in place for several months, I just started to use 
>>OpenOffice. The result was a disaster. Fonts appear to be about 3 inches 
>>tall. The sheet is still only as large as the screen, so there are about 
>>3 or 4 letters from the document on the screen. There are no scroll bars 
>>on the screen, so I can't see any of the rest of the screen. I can't see 
>>any buttons or icons.
>>
>>So... brilliantly, I figured it could all be resolved by simply 
>>reinstalling, or, better yet, installing the latest version.
>>
>>Unfortunately, I can't install that either, as it appears to be that the 
>>funky size problem is not with Open Office, but with KDE, as all I get 
>>of the first screen of the installer is the upper left corner, so I 
>>can't read any messages, can't see any buttons, can't do a think.
>>
>>On the off chance that the installer would behave as every other one 
>>I've ever seen, I hit the escape key and the letters Are  You Sure Y 
>>appeared, part of the Are you sure you want to exit the installater? 
>>message. I hit the Y key and the installer exited.
>>
>>So....... Anybody have a clue as to what is wrong?
>>
>>I also notice that previews in Konqueror are HUGE and so only a small 
>>portion of the upper left corner of whatever image is supposed to 
>>display actually appears. Liekwise with icons and file content previews.
>>
>>I seem to have fallen into an outsized world!
>>
>>Olaf
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