Re: GTK, GTK2 Fonts

["Kevin C. Smith" <smithkevinc@mchsi.com>]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 07:02:48PM -0500, Richard Beri wrote:
> I am not having fun with fonts in GTK and GTK2.  I installed gdm to 
> replace kdm, so now ~/.gtkrc-kde has no control over the gtk1 fonts 
> (which it did a nice job of).  For some reason gdm wants to always use 
> the ugly default font and I cannot change it, gnome-control-center run 
> as root has no effect on this font, and this ugly font buggers up all 
> the gtk-apps (including mozilla and the like).
> 
> Thats problem one, problem 2 is that now GTK2 apps like rox now default 
> to some tiny unreadable anti-aliased font, and again I use 
> gnome-control-center to try and set the font, but again gtk2 apps 
> ignore the settings.
> 
> I know that ~/.gtkrc controls the fonts in gtk1 apps (except for root 
> user for some reason), what config file is controlling the gtk2 apps?
> 

~/.gtkrc works only for the user whose home '~' refers to.
use /root/.gtkrc for roots gtk apps.

use ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and /root/.gtkrc-2.0 for gtk2 apps.


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