Re: first time deb user: how to tweak xserver fonts?

[joost@topaz.mdcc.cx (Joost Kooij)]

On Sun, Jul 01, 2001 at 10:40:11PM -0500, Christopher M. Jones wrote:
> xlsfonts gives me -bunches- of output. Standard adobe stuff, b&h, bitstream, 
> cronyx, ... KDE, for instance, uses a good font. The applications that suffer 
> are gtk apps like gnome-apt, and other random apps, like the menus in LyX (an 
> xforms app) and netscape, and the gdm login. So the problem isn't consistent 
> all the way through the X environment. I'm guessing KDE does allright because 
> it gets its own fonts its own way. 

Oh, now I see, you mean "Gnome and gtk" where you say "X".

> BTW: how does one find out what font X is using at any given time?

X doesn't determine what fonts to use, applications do.  You need
to look into the relevant documentation, probably gtk.

Cheers,


Joost