<Solved>MDM login font too small!

[stratus_ss]

I know its not a "Desktop" per say, but this seemed like the best place for this question.

OS: Linux Mint 13 x86_64
Display Manager: MDM

System Specs:
Asus G73SW
Nvidia GTX 460
12 gigs ddr 3

Desktops installed:

Gnome-shell
awsome
lxde
Cinnamon

problem: When a second monitor (or tv) is plugged in the login screen font is unreadably too small! Using the Nvidia-settings manager I note that it is set to 30X30 for the dpi

Attempted solutions:

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xrandr --dpi 96


inside of the /etc/mdm/Iinit/Default

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Option      "DPI" "96X96"


Inside of xorg.conf (this worked when I was running Mint 12 with lxde)
This actually caused X to stop working completely I had to remove these from xorg.conf

Once I am at the desktop in Cinnamon or Gnome-Shell the dpi does not effect the operation of the desktop... So its annoying but liveable... its just too bad the login font is soooooo small.

Anyone have any suggestions?

[avarez]

Well, I was also worried about this after installing new release. And I had to change font size from theme.xml.

Go to /use/share/mdm/themes/linuxmint and you'll find a file called theme.xml. Everything assuming you are with the same theme (linuxmint).

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<!-- username/password label & entry container -->
                <item type="rect">
                        <pos anchor="n" x="38%" y="340" height="box" width="box"/>
                        <normal color="#FFFFFF" alpha="0.3"/>
                        <box orientation="horizontal" spacing="10">
                                <!-- username/password label -->
                                <item type="label" id="pam-prompt">
                                        <pos anchor="n" x="56%" y="10%" />
                                        <stock type="username-label"/>
                                        <normal color="#525252" font="Sans 9"/>
                                </item>
                                <!-- username/password entry -->
                                <item type="entry" id="user-pw-entry">
                                        <normal color="#525252" font="Sans 9"/>
                                        <pos width="120" height="20"/>
                                </item>
                        </box>
                </item>


And I changed font size as you can see next:

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<!-- username/password label & entry container -->
                <item type="rect">
                        <pos anchor="n" x="38%" y="340" height="box" width="box"/>
                        <normal color="#FFFFFF" alpha="0.3"/>               
                        <box orientation="horizontal" spacing="10">
                                <!-- username/password label -->
                                <item type="label" id="pam-prompt">
                                        <pos anchor="n" x="56%" y="10%" />
                                        <stock type="username-label"/>
                                        <normal color="#525252" font="Sans 10"/>
                                </item>
                                <!-- username/password entry -->
                                <item type="entry" id="user-pw-entry">
                                        <normal color="#525252" font="Sans 18"/>
                                        <pos width="120" height="20"/>
                                </item>
                        </box>
                </item>


Now It's ok for me, you can try other font size values.

[stratus_ss]

Thanks I will try this later and mark as solved if it works

[stratus_ss]

That worked for me thanks!