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Re: Bad nautilus2 fonts (all courier)



On Sun, 2002-06-30 at 23:55, Michael Toomim wrote:
> Michael Toomim wrote:
> > I can't get the normal nautilus2 fonts to look decent.  My gtk2 
> > application font is verdana, and my desktop nautilus font is Matisse, 
> > but all fonts in the nautilus window are courier.
> 
> I think I figured this out.  It seems to be a combination of two other bugs:
> 
> 1) Gnome2 doesn't initialize various preferences on startup until 
> running a preferences program like gnome-font-preferences.

I think this is due to gnome-settings-daemon not running before.

> 2) Nautilus doesn't change its fonts when fonts are changed in 
> gnome-font-preferences (you have you restart nautilus).
> 
> Thus, all my fonts are courier when starting up gnome2.  So I run 
> gnome-font-preferences as a workaround (which also initializes my mouse 
> and keyboard settings).  But nautilus doesn't change its fonts from 
> courier.  So you then have to do a 'killall nautilus', so that it will 
> restart and pick the right fonts.

I have gnome-settings-daemon as a Startup Program with priority 1, that
seems to work also for nautilus.


-- 
Earthling Michel Dänzer (MrCooper)/ Debian GNU/Linux (powerpc) developer
XFree86 and DRI project member   /  CS student, Free Software enthusiast


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