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Re: How to change fonts for applications under X



Once upon a time, I heard Christian Dysthe say

> Hi,
> 
> I have a desktop and a laptop both running Debian (unstable). The
> problem is that the fonts in the applications, at least motif and gtk
> based ones, are too large on the laptop. I am talking about the fonts in
> menus, dropdowns and on buttons. Is there a way to change it so that
> these fonts are smaller like on the desktop? The way it is now the
> button bar in for instance Netscape is hopelessly large and takes up a
> lot of screen space. My mailer which is Tcl/Tk based (Postilion) does
> not have this problem.
> 
Try putting the 75dpi font before 100dpi font in /etc/XF86Config. It helped me
once or twice with recent potato installation, when I have both fonts intalled.

Chanop
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