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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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