Conky font differences under Arch compared to Ubuntu [SOLVED]

Question

I'm using the same basic .conkyrc when I'm booted into Arch as I do when I'm booted Ubuntu.  For some reason, the one under Ubuntu looks different font-wise.  In the screenshot below, Arch has the light blue background while Ubuntu has the slate colored one.  Anyone know what might be causing this?
Here is the first part of the ~/.conkyrc
background no
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager
out_to_console no
# X font when Xft is disabled, you can pick one with program xfontsel
#font 7x12
#font 6x10
#font 7x13
#font 8x13
#font 7x12
#font *mintsmild.se*
#font -*-*-*-*-*-*-34-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
#font -artwiz-snap-normal-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
# Xft font when Xft is enabled
xftfont Bitstream Vera Sans Mono:size=8
#own_window_transparent no
#own_window_colour hotpink
# Text alpha when using Xft
xftalpha 0.8
on_bottom yes
# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 2
# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
#own_window no
# Use double buffering (reduces flicker, may not work for everyone)
double_buffer yes
# Minimum size of text area
#minimum_size 250 5
maximum_width 258
# Draw shades?
draw_shades no
# Draw outlines?
draw_outline no
# Draw borders around text
draw_borders no
# Stippled borders?
stippled_borders 10
# border margins
border_margin 4
# border width
border_width 1
# Default colors and also border colors
default_color white
default_shade_color white
default_outline_color white
# Text alignment, other possible values are commented
#alignment top_left
#minimum_size 10 10
#alignment top_right
alignment bottom_left
#alignment bottom_right
# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 12
gap_y 37
# Add spaces to keep things from moving about? This only affects certain objects.
use_spacer no
# Subtract file system buffers from used memory?
no_buffers yes
# set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase
uppercase no
EDIT: the solution to this problem is described in post #12.
Last edited by graysky (2009-04-25 14:32:59)

Answer 1

Ashren wrote:Please check the output of "xdpyinfo | grep dots" it usually should be 96x96 dpi. My bet is that your dpi is wrong. If you're in KDE/Gnome you set the dpi in the DE. If you're using something else one solution is to add "xrandr --screen 0 --dpi 96x96" to your .xinitrc.
Here is the output:
$ xdpyinfo | grep dots
resolution: 90x88 dots per inch
I'm using Gnome but can't seem to locate a section to change my dpi.  I'm using the nvidia driver (8800GS) but didn't see an area under nvidia-settings to change it either.  I tried that xrandr line you proposed, upon restarting gdm, the setting didn't take:
$ xdpyinfo | grep dots
resolution: 90x88 dots per inch
Here is my ~/.xinitrc
#!/bin/sh
# ~/.xinitrc
# Executed by startx (run your window manager from here)
exec gnome-session
xrandr --screen 0 --dpi 96x96
Thanks!
Last edited by graysky (2009-04-23 18:37:22)