[hardy] XDM: huge font size

This is sort of what the same theme looked like in gutsy.

I've the exact problem. It seem that Xresources font size is ignored.

Please attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log

On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Timo Aaltonen <email address hidden>
wrote:

> Please attach your /var/log/Xorg.0.log
>
> ** Changed in: xdm (Ubuntu)
> Status: New => Incomplete
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> [hardy] XDM: huge font size
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Hey, I found out how you can solve the problem!

I had the same problem, tried out the debian-packages and so on...but didn't work at all.
The only reason why the fonts are scaled so huge is that the need the Face-Attribute!

This means your /etc/X11/xdm/Xresources should contain something like this:
xlogin.Login.greetFace: Comic Sans MS-16
xlogin.Login.face: Comic Sans MS-16
xlogin.Login.promptFace: Comic Sans MS-16
xlogin.Login.failFace: Comic Sans MS-16

Rather you should also give the items a font family...you can find a font via /usr/bin/xfontsel

You can use e.g. this to let xdm search a matching font (also in xdm/Xresources):
xlogin.Login.promtFont: *courier 10 pitch*

Greets,
Unsk1ll3d

This bug report was filed against an old version of Ubuntu.
Can you confirm whether this is still an issue in natty?

If you don't mind, it would be very helpful if you could update the bug
report in launchpad to 'Fix Released' if it is no longer an issue for
you, or if it is still occurring under natty, please tag the bug 'natty'
so it's easier for us to track.

We're closing this bug since it is has been some time with no response from the original reporter. However, if the issue still exists please feel free to reopen with the requested information. Also, if you could, please test against the latest development version of Ubuntu, since this confirms the bug is one we may be able to pass upstream for help.