Hello,
maybe you remember this thread as of a few weeks ago. My problem is that
the user interface font in OpenOffice is gargantuan when run under fvwm.
However, during my recent experiments with gnome-desktop-environment
(which also messed up my cursor theme, thanks for the
update-alternatives tip) I discovered that Oo looks just fine! Small
fonts, nicely integrated with the look of the whole desktop.
My question is: Where the hell does OO get its ideas about UI fonts? Can
only be through environment variables, can't it? So I dumped the shell
environment variables once from a terminal in the gnome desktop and once
from fvwm. Both terminals had been used to start OO from the command
line. I then diffed one environment against the other with
$ diff environment_fvwm environment_gnome
The result is attached below. Of course the line
GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/dh/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
immediately caught my attention, so I exported that variable in a shell
in fvwm and started OO, but to no avail.
So, again: Where does OO get its UI font ideas?
Thanks,
--D.
Below is the complete environment diff:
13c13,14
< COLUMNS=120
---
> COLORTERM=gnome-terminal
> COLUMNS=80
15c16
<
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-HtM8H5oNK9,guid=e32c94f9ccdfe9405b4ec00045dbfe09
---
>
DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-DrDTw89ZfL,guid=b3232343a1a9051e9a857a0045dbfddd
16a18
> DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID=
21,22c23,24
< FVWM_MODULEDIR=/usr/lib/fvwm/2.5.18
< FVWM_USERDIR=/home/dh/.fvwm
---
> GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=Default
> GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-VwW1nf/socket
23a26
> GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/dh/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
28d30
< HOSTDISPLAY=kir:0.0
33c35
< LINES=64
---
> LINES=24
44c46
< PPID=3932
---
> PPID=3795
49a52
> SESSION_MANAGER=local/kir:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3659
53,54c56,57
< SSH_AGENT_PID=3917
< SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-KsErVB3865/agent.3865
---
> SSH_AGENT_PID=3711
> SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-OMHUil3659/agent.3659
59c62
< WINDOWID=6291471
---
> WINDOWID=33554512
61,62d63
< XTERM_SHELL=/bin/bash
< XTERM_VERSION='XTerm(222)'
Liam O'Toole wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:20:27 +0100
> Sven Arvidsson <sa@whiz.se> wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 10:06 +0100, Dan H. wrote:
>>> After a sarge->etch (and, consequently, oo-1.2 -> oo2.0) upgrade I
>>> found that all fonts in menus and dialog boxes are huge (see
>> [...]
>>> As you can see in the dialog box in that screenshot, there is a "Use
>>> system font for user interface" checkbox. Unclicking it and
>>> re-starting the app doesn't make any difference at all, neither
>>> does changing default fonts in a KDE desktop environment
>> I see this too, in a GNOME environment. My fonts are not larger than
>> the default ones, but different and with worse anti-aliasing.
>
> I think there is an issue with OOo and freetype 2.2.x in
> testing/unstable. I compiled freetype 2.1.10, copied the libraries
> to /usr/local/lib/freetype-2.1.10, and put the following line
> in /usr/bin/oowrapper:
>
> $ENV{LD_PRELOAD} =
> '/usr/local/lib/freetype-2.1.10/libfreetype.so.6';
>
> Drastic measures, I know! The result is quite pleasing though:
>
> http://otoole.webhop.org/desktop/OOo.png
>
>> Apparently, you and I are not alone, a quick check in the bug tracker
>> show quite a few similar bugs, 340029, 351781, 357356, 376878,
>> 400419... and a few others I'm sure.
>>
>
>
>
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