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Re: fonts too large



On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 13:37, David Zelinsky wrote:
> I recently upgraded to woody (actually I ended up doing a clean
> install, for reasons I won't get into), and now most of the fonts in
> application windows are way too large.  Examples include:  menus,
> dialog boxes and input fields in netscape, mozilla, dillo and
> acroread, to name a few.  (The font preference for netscape et al only
> affect the document fonts, not the menus and toolbars.)
> 
> Can anyone tell me how to change this?  I'm using xfs (tried changing
> the default-point-size in /etc/X11/fs/config but it had no effect).
> I've been using fvwm started by gdm, but it doesn't seem to matter
> which window manager or desktop I use.

Hmm, have you tried to change the desktop theme ??
(Assuming you did not mean that by saying that it does not matter which
desktop you use).

Usually the default - theme comes with pretty big and ugly fonts,
download / install / choose another one and you should be alright.

At least that worked for me.

HTH

Matt



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