Re: Gnome/sawfish - font problem (sid)
On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 07:17, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-09-05 at 06:00, Philippe Marzouk wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 04, 2002 at 06:21:06PM +0200, Claudio Bley wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 14:50, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > > > Also, sawfish's options no longer appear in the Control centre menu. I
> > > > don't know if this is related, but both happened around the same time.
> > >
> > > Your sawfish was compiled for GNOME 2 - of course its options don't show up
> > > in control-center 1.
>
> I can't find a control-center 2 in sid. What package is it in?
I don't know - I just installed garnome. The program is called
gnome-control-center. You might want to use the --use-shell option when
starting the program.
> > Try 'sawfish-ui' to configure sawfish
>
> That is what is run by the sawfish configuration button in the control
> centre. There is no option in it that affects the ugly font that it
> uses.
>
> I also tried gconf-editor. Again, nothing in it seems to affect that
> choice of fonts. (See http://people.debian.org/~elphick/weirdfonts.jpeg)
You mean you don't have a "font_name" key in /desktop/gnome/interface ??
Try to run the gnome-font-properties program instead...
> As usual with gnome, there seems to be a complete lack of useful
> documentation. The only docs we have are Microsoft level stuff - press
> button x to do y. Yuk! Isn't there anything that describes the
> underlying system?
I'm not sure. But it is said that the "average" user doesn't care about
the underlying system and must be protected at all costs, hidden from
her/him the fact that computers are complex devices.
Claudio
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