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Re: Big fonts (audacity and xmms)



On Sun, 16 Apr 2006 06:48:49 -0700
L.V.Gandhi <lvgandhi@gmail.com> wrote:

> On 4/16/06, Liam O'Toole <liam.p.otoole@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Audacity and XMMS are both GTK1 applications (directly or
> > indirectly), whereas the GIMP uses GTK2. There are big differences
> > in font rendering and configuration between the two toolkits.
> >
> > You can customise fonts in GTK1 applications by creating the
> > file .gtkrc with the following contents:
> >
> >    style "user-font" {
> >        fontset = "<font-specification>"
> >    }
> >    widget_class "*" style "user-font"
> >
> > where <font-specification> represents a font specification in the
> > style used by traditional X applications, such as
> > "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-*-*-*-*")
> 
> A good solution. Sometimes I have seen, no menu letters were visible.
> Any solutions for that?
> --
> L.V.Gandhi
> http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/
> linux user No.205042

I've never seen that. Can you provide some examples?

If you xfontsel to verify your choice of <font-specification> above,
then you should be alright.

-- 

Liam



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