[SLE] changing appliaction fonts in KDE
Hello, no matter what I do on KDE ->Personal Settings (former control centre ) I am not able to change fonts of atleast these three applications: Evolution Firefox Open Office By fonts i means font used for tabs like File/Edit/View/Go/Bookmarks...etc. and not the fonts of the mails/URLs/documents/ open in Evolution/Firefox/Office respectively. These mail/doc fonts i can change thro' normal ways..from within these apps...Its the Application fonts which dont change...even i if change all fonts in Control/Centre.... Any Clue Digz -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:31, Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote:
Evolution Firefox Open Office
By fonts i means font used for tabs like File/Edit/View/Go/Bookmarks...etc. and not the fonts of the mails/URLs/documents/ open in Evolution/Firefox/Office respectively.
Hi Digz, Evolution and Firefox (based on the gecko engine) use the font settings from GNOME. You can adjust these fonts using GNOME Control Center (from my KDE 3.5.2 level 'a' main menu on SUSE 10.1: Utilities > Settings > Control Center (below 'Beagle Settings') opens 'Desktop Preferences', scroll down to "Look and Feel" and select "Fonts". These changes won't "stick" across sessions unless you do one of two things: Add a symlink to "gnome-settings-daemon" in ~/.kde/Autostart on my system it 'lives' here: /opt/gnome/lib/control-center-2.0/gnome-settings-daemon *or* Try this (from an older SLE post):
When the first gtk2 applications came, I saw people in this list complain about a tiny menu & dialog font in these apps (evolution, gftp, mozilla, to name a few). This was the case in 8.2, 9.0, ...9.1? Don't know about 9.2, since I'm still happily running everything I need in 8.2.
In Gnome, this font can be adjusted in Gnome Control Center. Outside Gnome, the suggested solution was to adjust the font by running gnome-control-center (as user) and keep gnome-settings-daemon running in the background.
The reason why I did not like gnome-settings-daemon very much is because of a steady flow of error messages that could be noticed if run from the command line. Also, I noticed a slowdown in the scrolling in several apps, using the arrows in the scroll bar or the arrow keys.
I now happened to stumble across a better solution, namely:
Add a line like this to your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (or create the file if it doesn't exist yet):
gtk-font-name = "Adobe Helvetica 12"
Apparently, the font name should match the name found in the Gnome Control Center or the KDE Control Center. E.g., if I enter this line instead:
gtk-font-name = "Helvetica 12"
then the 12 is recognized, but Helvetica is not.
gtk2 menu and dialog fonts now look great without gnome-settings-daemon, and scrolling is at optimal speed again.
Please let me know which solution you implemented and if it works satisfactorily, OK? I don't have time to experiment with this right now. regards, Carl -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:31, Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote:
Hello, no matter what I do on KDE ->Personal Settings (former control centre ) I am not able to change fonts of atleast these three applications: Evolution Firefox Open Office
By fonts i means font used for tabs like File/Edit/View/Go/Bookmarks...etc. and not the fonts of the mails/URLs/documents/ open in Evolution/Firefox/Office respectively. These mail/doc fonts i can change thro' normal ways..from within these apps...Its the Application fonts which dont change...even i if change all fonts in Control/Centre....
Open Gnome-Control-Center and set your fonts there. Don't know if theat will work for 00 though. Bob S. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 00:30:42 -0400 Bob S wrote:
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:31, Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote:
Hello, no matter what I do on KDE ->Personal Settings (former control centre ) I am not able to change fonts of atleast these three applications: Evolution Firefox Open Office
Open Gnome-Control-Center and set your fonts there. Don't know if theat will work for 00 though.
Menu/dialog fonts in OO can be adjusted in OO itself. Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > View > adjust the 'Scaling' there. -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
On 6/8/06, Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Thu, 8 Jun 2006 00:30:42 -0400 Bob S wrote:
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 02:31, Digvijoy Chatterjee wrote:
Hello, no matter what I do on KDE ->Personal Settings (former control centre ) I am not able to change fonts of atleast these three applications: Evolution Firefox Open Office
Open Gnome-Control-Center and set your fonts there. Don't know if theat will work for 00 though.
Menu/dialog fonts in OO can be adjusted in OO itself. Tools > Options > OpenOffice.org > View > adjust the 'Scaling' there.
Thanks everyone , using gnome-control-centre I was able to change Fonts for Evolution/Firefox/OO the scaling adjustment suggested above scales everything down ,and that wasnt quite what I was looking for Rgds Digz -- Check the headers for your unsubscription address For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the archives at http://lists.suse.com Please read the FAQs: suse-linux-e-faq@suse.com
participants (4)
-
Bob S
-
Carl Hartung
-
Digvijoy Chatterjee
-
Sjoerd Hiemstra