Re: GTK App Fonts

[Steven Feinstein <stevefeinstein@netscape.net>]

Peter O wrote:

> On Wednesday 01 September 2004 19:20, Steven Feinstein wrote:
>> The apps I use based on either GTK or Gnome start up with very small
>> fonts.
>> The apps I'm using are FireFox, The Gimp and gVIM.  I read in another
>> message that running gnome-settings-daemon solves the problem.  And it
>> did. My questions are:
>>
>> 1) Where should I put the call so it executes when I login (or startup
>> whichever is better).
>>
>> 2) Why do I need to do this?  Shouldn't the installation of gnome (even
>> if I don't use the gnome desktop) have taken care of this?
>>
>> My system is Testing (Sarge) using KDM and KDE.  I last updated my
>> packages on 9/1.
>>
>> Thanks for any pointers.
>>
>> Steve
> 
> Hi Steve,
> 
> you should put this line (or whatever font you prefer) into ~.gtkrc-2.0
> 
> gtk-font-name = "Sans 9"
> 
> Then your gtk apps will have this font under KDE.
> 
> Peter
> 
> 


That worked, thanks.  My menus and dialogs look a lot better.

Steve