OpenOffice in chroot -- fonts?

[Andrew Robinson]

I am on amd64 and the 64 bit version of OO is very unstable at the
moment (I don't think saving of documents works for example). So to
make sure I was running in a pure 32 bit mode, I built the ia32 chroot
jail

On 8/25/06, Standard Azi <stdazi at gmail.com> wrote:
> heya
>
> Just out of couriosity.. What's the point of having a chrooted process
> of OpenOffice?
>
> On 8/24/06, Andrew Robinson <andrew.rw.robinson at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Got it working with a bit of a hack.
> >
> > I added the following to my .Xresources:
> > Xft.dpi: 96
> >
> > I also installed xfce4 and kdelibs in the chroot to test, but I doubt
> > that made a difference.
> >
> > With the fixed DPI, OO went to the right size. Don't know what DPI it
> > was defaulting to though.
> >
> > -Andrew
> >
> > On 8/24/06, Matteo Vescovi <mfv at altervista.org> wrote:
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> > > Hi Andrew,
> > >
> > > On 08/24/2006 09:20 PM, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> > > > Tried using xfs. I have more fonts now in open office, and the "Andale
> > > > Mono" is now available, but that didn't help
> > > >
> > > > What is interesting, is that the fonts are correct in the actual
> > > > contant (in oocalc, the fonts in the cells are fine). It is only the
> > > > windowing fonts (menu bar, dialog text, etc.).
> > > >
> > > > I'm wondering if it could be a gnome or kde config issue inside the chroot.
> > > >
> > > > Where do the font settings come from in the chroot (KDE, gnome, xfce)?
> > > > Outside of the chroot I am running XFCE with KDE support enabled.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > > Andrew
> > >
> > > Have you tried changing the scale percentage in the user "interface" tab
> > > under the Options??
> > > I used it to scale the text of the entire OOo window. I set it up to 95%
> > > and it's quite acceptable.
> > > It's not the perfect solution, but it's a solution ;-)
> > >
> > > Just my 2 cents.
> > >
> > > Greetings.
> > >
> > > mfv
> > >
> > >
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