Re: How to change window menu font in gnome2?

[Elizabeth Barham <lizzy@soggytrousers.net>]

Hi Wei,

Various properties of Gtk2 can be set from your ~/.gtkrc-2 file. Here
are some of them:

     http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/GtkSettings.html

For example, to make Emacs key bindings the default:

     gtk-key-theme-name = "Emacs"

Or to make ^H mean backspace:

     binding "my-text-entry" {
        bind "<ctrl>h" { "delete-from-cursor" (chars, -1) }
     }

     class "GtkEntry" binding "my-text-entry"
     class "GtkTextView" binding "my-text-entry"

There is also this property listed in the URL cited above:

     "gtk-font-name" (gchararray : Read / Write)
               Name of default font to use.

Right before the before-mentioned URL is:

      http://developer.gnome.org/doc/API/2.0/gtk/gtk-Resource-Files.html

Which goes into some detail about this.

hth some!

Elizabeth

Wei writes:

> Hi,
> 
> I just installed gnome2.2 and the menu of all windows(font of file,
> edit, view etc.)  all look rediculously huge.  I ran
> gnome-font-properties that provides controls over 4 classes of fonts:
> Application font Desktop Font Window title font Terminal font
> 
> The "window title font" is grey and either of other 3 doesn't affect
> the font of the menu font. Could any one give me a hint about this? Is
> "window title font" the one that controls the font of window menu and
> buttons?  If so, how do I make it usable (not gray).
> 
> Maybe this is not the right place to post this, but any little tip
> would be highly appreciated.