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Re: gnome-terminal: can't change font or font size



On Mon, 2002-10-14 at 22:47, Christopher N. Deckard wrote:
> Last night I realized that I wasn't using the Gnome2 packages
> without the 2 appended at the end, so I upgraded my experimental
> packages to get current.  I also enabled anti-aliased fonts per the
> discussion about that by adding GDK_USE_XFT=1 to /etc/environment. 
> Now I get a large fixed-width as the font for gnome-terminal.  When
> I select other fonts from the drop down provided in the config for
> gnome-terminal, the text in all terminal windows flickers, but the
> font doesn't change.
> 
> galeon does seem to be using a slightly different font too, but I
> can't really tell what.  I think it's just a scaling difference. 
> The upgrade to X 4.2.1 did not seem to affect it, just updating to
> the newest gnome2 packages.
> 
> Using gconf-editor to poke the font didn't help any.  Same results
> as using the font select box in the gnome-terminal configure
> screens.
> 
> Please CC me on replies as I'm not on the mailing list.

Having the same problem here, although I am using the gnome (without the
2 suffix) packages from experimental.

Andreas




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