Weird Konsole font issue

[Jayson Rowe]

On Fri, Aug 3, 2012 at 9:32 AM, Lukas Middendorf
<lukas+fedora at tuxforce.de> wrote:
> On Thursday 02 August 2012 21:13:22 Jayson Rowe wrote:
>> I have a strange issue with my Monospace font, that only seems to show
>> up in Konsole. I first discovered this over the weekend (Sunday I
>> believe), and I thought I had it fixed.
>> When I first saw the issue, I even went so far as to create a Virtual
>> machine, apply all the updates, add the KDE-Unstable repo, and apply
>> the Infinality font patches I run to recreate my setup exactly, and
>> took a screenshot [1] showing that in the VM the fonts looked fine,
>> but on my workstation they looked 'different'.
>>
>> After doing that, at some point I rebooted my desktop, and I thought
>> initially that it was fixed, but I think I had opened and closed a
>> Konsole session before noticing, because now I see that the first time
>> I open Konsole, my fonts are still showing differently [2], but if I
>> close Konsole and open it right back, the issue goes away [3]. If I
>> open multiple Konsole windows, I have to close them all and reopen
>> before the fonts will look normal. It even seems the gui fonts
>> displaying on the Menu bar are slight different as well.
>>
>> This is on my home PC. My work PC, also with Fedora 17, KDE Unstable
>> enabled and the Infinality patches enabled doesn't have this
>> behavior...and neither does my laptop, only this one machine.
>
> Does the dpi of the display that X reports differ between the machines? The
> last time I have seen strange font sizes it was because the reported dpi of
> the display differed from the default 96x96. You can check with
> xdpyinfo | grep -B1 dot
>
> That would not explain why it differs between restarts of Konsole, but is the
> first thing you should check.
>
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Hi Lukas,
I'm at work now but will check when I get home. If that *is* the case,
should I set "Force DPI to 96" in the Fonts settings under System
Settings?

-- 
-jayson