Re: GTK App Fonts

[Peter O <po@dialore.com>]

On Wednesday 01 September 2004 19:20, Steven Feinstein wrote:
> The apps I use based on either GTK or Gnome start up with very small fonts.
> The apps I'm using are FireFox, The Gimp and gVIM.  I read in another
> message that running gnome-settings-daemon solves the problem.  And it did.
> My questions are:
>
> 1) Where should I put the call so it executes when I login (or startup
> whichever is better).
>
> 2) Why do I need to do this?  Shouldn't the installation of gnome (even if
> I don't use the gnome desktop) have taken care of this?
>
> My system is Testing (Sarge) using KDM and KDE.  I last updated my packages
> on 9/1.
>
> Thanks for any pointers.
>
> Steve

Hi Steve,

you should put this line (or whatever font you prefer) into ~.gtkrc-2.0

gtk-font-name = "Sans 9"

Then your gtk apps will have this font under KDE.

Peter