Re: Motif and GTK menu font sizes?
On Mon, 09 Oct 2000 16:14:08 -0400, Samuel Hathaway wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to run a bare-bones twm X desktop without dealing with gnome or
> kde, but i'm not too familiar with how to tweak my settings. I'm running the
> SVGA server at 1024x768 on a 15" monitor. the problem that i'm currently
> having is that the font sizes for Motif menu bars (like in netscape) and GTK
> interfaces (like in gnome-apt) are too huge. xterm and other "really simple"
> X clients are fine. Is there a way to tell Motif or GTK to be smaller, or is
> there a global setting that they use? i tried playing with the -dpi switch,
> but it didn't make any difference in the font sizes.
I had a similar problem. Try removing the xfonts-100dpi package (it seems
the dpi value isn't honoured anymore - dunno why).
If this doesn't help, you can try tweaking X Resources. The
XWindow-User-HOWTO (install doc-linux-text or dox-linux-html) has a
good explanation of what's involved.
Regards,
Bjoern
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Bj"orn Brill <brill@fs.math.uni-frankfurt.de>
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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