A while ago I was trying to get my ATI Card working.. And for what ever reason what ever I did, didnt quite work. My laptop has a default res of 1280X1600 and My fonts always looked big. The other day i was doing something and a crash happened. I then lost my lower taskbar, when I rebooted all my fonts were tiny.. I think this is how it should look like at 1280X1600 res. But now I am used to the large fonts. Where can I go to change it? I went through the right click of the desktop and went through the configure desktop menu and it seems to make my desktop icons nice but my apps like Mozilla, and Evolution are still small.. where should i be looking for these?? Thanks! Charles
Charles Love wrote:
A while ago I was trying to get my ATI Card working.. And for what ever reason what ever I did, didnt quite work. My laptop has a default res of 1280X1600 and My fonts always looked big.
The other day i was doing something and a crash happened. I then lost my lower taskbar, when I rebooted all my fonts were tiny..
I think this is how it should look like at 1280X1600 res. But now I am used to the large fonts. Where can I go to change it? I went through the right click of the desktop and went through the configure desktop menu and it seems to make my desktop icons nice but my apps like Mozilla, and Evolution are still small..
where should i be looking for these??
No font expert here, but go to Control Center->Appearance&Themes->Fonts. Assuming you are running KDE... This brings up a question I meant to post a while back. While playing around with different fonts and sizes I noticed that Sans was not a choice even though it is the default font for several items. I don't like changing a font unless I can go back to the original. Why isn't Sans a choice? I'm running v9.0 Professional. Gary
Charles Love wrote:
I went through the right click of the desktop and went through the configure desktop menu and it seems to make my desktop icons nice but my apps like Mozilla, and Evolution are still small..
where should i be looking for these??
Mozilla and Evolution are gtk2 apps. Their fonts are controlled with gnome-control-center. In order to take effect, gnome-settings-daemon must be running. (Speaking as an 8.2 user here.) SH
Thanks for the Tip :) I changed my fonts to 13 in the Gnome Control Center. And rebooted and saw no change.. How would I start the daemon? I tried just typing gnome-settings-daemon and got.. ############################################# inux-clove:~ # gnome-settings-daemon Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified xscreensaver: Can't open display: :0.0 xscreensaver: initial effective uid/gid was root/root (0/0) xscreensaver: running as nobody/nobody (65534/65533) xscreensaver: This is probably because you're logging in as root. You shouldn't log in as root: you should log in as a normal user, and then `su' as needed. If you insist on logging in as root, you will have to turn off X's security features before xscreensaver will work. Please read the manual and FAQ for more information: http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/faq.html http://www.jwz.org/xscreensaver/man.html ############################################# On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 14:00, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
Charles Love wrote:
I went through the right click of the desktop and went through the configure desktop menu and it seems to make my desktop icons nice but my apps like Mozilla, and Evolution are still small..
where should i be looking for these??
Mozilla and Evolution are gtk2 apps. Their fonts are controlled with gnome-control-center. In order to take effect, gnome-settings-daemon must be running. (Speaking as an 8.2 user here.)
SH
Charles Love wrote:
I tried just typing gnome-settings-daemon and got...
############################################# inux-clove:~ # gnome-settings-daemon Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified
xscreensaver: Can't open display: :0.0 xscreensaver: initial effective uid/gid was root/root (0/0) xscreensaver: running as nobody/nobody (65534/65533)> xscreensaver: This is probably because you're logging in as root. [snip]
You are trying to run gnome-settings-daemon as root. The command gnome-control-center as well as the command gnome-settings-daemon should be run as user. SH
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 08:49, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
Charles Love wrote:
I tried just typing gnome-settings-daemon and got...
############################################# inux-clove:~ # gnome-settings-daemon Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified
xscreensaver: Can't open display: :0.0 xscreensaver: initial effective uid/gid was root/root (0/0) xscreensaver: running as nobody/nobody (65534/65533)> xscreensaver: This is probably because you're logging in as root. [snip]
You are trying to run gnome-settings-daemon as root. The command
gnome-control-center
as well as the command
gnome-settings-daemon
should be run as user.
SH
I only login as root for now.. Once I get a handle on things I will move over to a user.. When I run gnome-control-center i see all the fonts are set to 16.. Yet when I go into Mozilla I still see some sites really tiny tiny.. and If I zoom it to 120% it looks ok. what else could I try? --Charles
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 05 January 2004 09:31 pm, Charles Love wrote:
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 08:49, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote:
Charles Love wrote:
I tried just typing gnome-settings-daemon and got...
############################################# inux-clove:~ # gnome-settings-daemon Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified
xscreensaver: Can't open display: :0.0 xscreensaver: initial effective uid/gid was root/root (0/0) xscreensaver: running as nobody/nobody (65534/65533)> xscreensaver: This is probably because you're logging in as root.
sounds like xscreensaver is trying to teach you good habits
[snip] SH
I only login as root for now.. Once I get a handle on things I will move over to a user..
I feel the need to butt in here, It sounds like you are saying that you are learning how to use linux so you always log in as root. I would suggest (if my assumption is right) that you go right now and create a user account to login with for your learning phase. Once you have reached a certain level of knowledge then you will realize that you rarely need to login as root. In other words You don't know enough to log in as root, when you do then you'll know enough not to login as root. My experience (mainly using kde) is that the root user sometimes has a hard time saving preferences. I assume that this is to encourage people to use "user accounts" wherever possible and only log into root when necessary. When I need to use graphical tools as root I open a terminal and type sux my-root-password then the name of the command (with its full path if needed) See ya - -- dh -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/+kvABwgxlylUsJARAkPaAJ4yYtCWDtP2C2L9VInIpDl6sJPtFQCcCkm/ KjjdgyVyPisG25jsmM0SRG0= =s6+m -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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