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Binary package hint: kdebase-workspace

On Toshiba Satellite A100-786, when running Kubuntu fonts are extremely
huge. After manually setting the DPI to 96, it is fine.

Here's the full story:
1. I tried to run Kubuntu on my laptop, but the fonts were too huge which made me unable to do anything (it happened both in the live CD and in a pre-installed hard disk from another computer).
2. I changed from KDM to GDM which solved part of the problem - the panel fonts were OK but not the application fonts.
3. I opened an xterm session and tried to run only kwin - the font of the window title was huge again.
4. I killed kwin and tried to open only plasma-desktop without a windows manager - the fonts were still huge.
5. I opened system-settings from gnome session. In appearance>fonts I changed "force fonts dpi" to 96.
When I then started a KDE session it was fine.

One more problem that might be related:
All this time the panel was not maximized as default and was only part of the width of the screen. I could maximize it though.

You can see the screenshots from each stage here:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3107128.0

I'm using Kubuntu 9.10 beta.
kde-window-manager 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu6

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Oct 27 07:40:03 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
LiveMediaBuild: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Beta i386 (20090929.2)
Package: kde-window-manager 4:4.3.2-0ubuntu6
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-13.44-generic
SourcePackage: kdebase-workspace
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-13-generic i686

** Affects: xserver-xorg-video-ati (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New


** Tags: apport-bug i386
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KDE does not set the DPI automatically to a valid value
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/461701
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