On Saturday 04 Oct 2008, Vikas Rawal wrote: > [snip] > 5. I have both ubuntu 8.04 and debian lenny installed on the > system. They share /home, and therefore, much of the gnome > configuration files. With the same configuration, Debian's default > appearance seems ugly in comparison with ubuntu. In particular, the > fonts are too large and made the desktop and some applications look > ugly. Both ubuntu and debian have the same screen resolution > (1280x800) and it does not look like either has a problem with my > graphics card (intel). My present solution is to shift to a smaller > size, but that does not solve all the problems. For example, emacs > still has HUGE fonts.
You could try changing the screen resolution and see if that helps. If your resolution is set to 120 dpi you will get huge fonts. > [snip] > To sum, so far, debian lenny has worked much better on this machine > than ubuntu 8.04 did. There are a few minor issues with the debian > installation but it recognised all the hardware so much better than > ubuntu did. Glad to hear that :) Regards, -- Raju -- Raj Mathur [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://kandalaya.org/ GPG: 78D4 FC67 367F 40E2 0DD5 0FEF C968 D0EF CC68 D17F PsyTrance & Chill: http://schizoid.in/ || It is the mind that moves _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
