Login screen text is oversized.

[Mustek]

The text is oversized on my laptop (15.4")
everything is out of place. But once I'm logged in everything is normal.

[aged hippy]

Re: Login screen text is oversized.

What graphics card do you have?

[Mustek]

Re: Login screen text is oversized.

Ati Radeon Mobility X700 XL
But like I said, it only happens on the login screen.

[Snowhog]

Re: Login screen text is oversized.

The 'likely' cause is in the [X-*-Greeter] section of the kdmrc file. I'm not on II - using HH KDE 4.1.2 - but if things haven't changed to much ...

Open a console and type:

sudo find / -mount -name kdmrc

Note the location, which probably is /etc/kde4/kdm/kdmrc

In the console, type:

more [path to file from above]/kdmrc

and look for the section beginning [X-*-Greeter]
and the line:
GreetFont=Serif,20,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0

It's quite likely that the font size (the number after the font name) needs to be reduced. Mine - Serif,20 - is quiet acceptable.

If you find the entry is a much larger number, edit the file as root and make the number smaller.

[Mustek]

Re: Login screen text is oversized.

it's commented, so it's on it's default value, meaning Serif, 20, bold.

[Snowhog]

Re: Login screen text is oversized.

Is the entire login screen 'huge' ?