[ale] GTK font sizes

David Corbin dcorbin at machturtle.com
Tue Jan 4 20:01:27 EST 2005


> David Corbin wrote:
> | Suddenly, all my GTK based applications are using "really small fonts".
> | barley legible at the high-resolution that I run my KDE desktop at.
>
> The only
>
> | thing i did (honest) was to move my system from one building to
>
> another.  As
>
> | I recall, all my fonts started coming up small, but I've changed my KDE
> | settings, and now everything is reasonable except the fonts in GTK
>
> widgets.
>
> | Ideas?
> |
> | David
>
> David,
> ~    When I was still using KDE, my GTK fonts were all nutso like that,
> too.  I mucked about with ~/.gtkrc and ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and things shaped
> up.  When I switched to Gnome, I accepted the defaults to overwrite my
> kludge of setting the aforementioned files.  My distro is Debian
> unstable/sid on PowerPC.


Thanks.  That was it.  Not sure where it came from but I had a font-name 
define in .gtkrc-2.0.



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