On Tue, 8 Aug 2017 02:36:46 -0400 (EDT)
Felmon Davis <davisf@...> wrote:

> 
> ok, that's progress; still tiny fonts in the menus of GTK apps but 
> also elsewhere, e.g. in some menus of Firefox still; tiny icons on 
> 'kicker' and elsewhere. strange tiny fonts on the opening page of 
> Trinity Control Center.
> 
> I need to figure out GTK.


I noticed that in you entire quest you never mentioned /etc/fonts
and/or ./config/fontconfig. There is a dpi property that if set in configs 
will override what is requested by application. search for 'name="dpi"'
through all fontconfig files to check if you have not set it somewhere.
 


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  Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky@...)