On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 11:24:41 -0500, Gan Uesli Starling <alias@starling.us>
wrote:
> All these programs start but show tiny, one-pixel
> fonts in the menues in both twm and icewm window
> managers.
> 
> 1. Bluefish
> 2. QCad
> 3. Sodipodi
> 
> This window manager gives an error window in the
> same size one-pixel font.
> 
> 1. gnome-session
> 
> Other programs such as Mozilla and GIMP work just
> fine. This is on my laptop which otherwise works
> as well as my tower PC. Any clues?

Bluefish I know is GTK2, and Mozilla is not.  When I encountered similar
trouble on first using GTK2 apps, I modified began invoking startx with:

	startx -- -dpi 100

which is accurate for my setup.  The client apps (the GTK2 ones, at any
rate) selected a reasonable font after that.  

HTH.  

--jkl