Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 21:13:01 +0100 From: Phil Payne <phil@sal-n-phil.net> To: matthew@starbreaker.net, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing gtk application fonts outside of gnome (Answer) Message-ID: <200307212113.01739.phil@sal-n-phil.net> In-Reply-To: <200307191427.51962.matthew@starbreaker.net> References: <200307191552.04153.phil@sal-n-phil.net> <200307191427.51962.matthew@starbreaker.net>
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Hi,
Caveat, I'm no GTK/Gnome expert so if someone wants to pick holes, feel
free...
Did some further digging around on the web and I've concluded that the way to
ensure your GTK apps appear as you want (font wise) outside of gnome is:
If you want anti-aliasing ensure the following environment variable is set:
GDK_USE_XFT=1
Thanks to Matthew for that.
To change the default font for GTK1.* apps then add the following lines to the
file ~/.gtkrc (or create it if it doesn't exist):
style "default" {
font = "-*-helvetica-medium-r-*-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15"
}
Note... using full font definition.
For GTK2 based apps then things have changed. Need to add the following line
to the file ~/.gtkrc-2.0, outside of any style definition if you want it to
be global. (I believe that within a style definition you use the font_name =
"" format):
gtk-font-name = "Helvetica 12"
Note the switch to using shorthand font names.
Hope that helps anyone else stuck as I was.
Cheers,
Phil.
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