Re: Gnome / Gtk menu fonts: galeon, mozilla, pan, gabber (sid/unstable)

[Michael Rauch <mira-lists@sushisurprise.ch>]

try it with putting the following in your ~/.gtkrc

style "user-font"
{
  fontset="-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"


you can use simpler font names if you have set up aliases on your system 
(i didn't).

further you may want to checkout the XFree86 Font De-uglification HOWTO
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU/index.html
for further references and tips

To get antialiased fonts in GNOME 2 see
http://people.debian.org/~walters/gnome2.html
I tried this but remove the settings afterwards because i messed up the 
fonts in eclipse (you could fix that, i guess, but i wasn't in the mood 
to fiddle around with it)

cheers,
#!michael


Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Menu fonts for a number of applications, most of them Gnome / Gtk apps
> (and I suspect the latter) are now larger than I'd like them to be.
>
> Apps affected include Galeon, Pan, Gabber, Mozilla, and dillo.
>
> With recent upgrades, I've now got Gnome2 partially installed on this
> x86 Debian/unstable system.  Some of the native Gnome2 tools *do* have
> the proper system fonts, as do some (but not all) apps (most notably:
> Mozilla) when run under a Gnome2 session (my standard desktop is
> WindowMaker).
>
> I seem to recall modifying application fonts via the "old" Gnome 1
> control panel.  The Gnome2 control panel settings aren't taking for most
> of these apps.  I've also tried fishing under ~/.gnome and ~/.gnome2 but
> can't find anything that appears to be a general menus font setting.
>
> I've also found references to gtkrc files, either under /etc or
> ~/.gtkrc, but I'm not sure what the syntax or possible contents are, and
> can find no other related documentation.
>
> Anyone got a work-through for this?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Peace.