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