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Some background first.
I am running Suse 10.0 with KDE 3.4 on my notebook. I have a Dell D610 with 14.1" screen that is running at 1400x1050. Now before you all shout DPI DPI... I have check, X is running correctly and is setup as it should be.

Now to the problem.
I have changed the default font size of KDE to size 8 compared to the normal size 10 (I think). The problem is when KDE starts up kicker, kdesetop or any of the autostart apps like klipper or kpowersave etc dont take heed of the new font setting. These apps only take note of the new font settings when they are restarted but this is a pain.

What I suspect is happening is that KDE only sets the theme and fonts after the kdeinit process have loaded. So I need to change this such that kdeinit only runs after the font settings have been set. Else if there is a place where I can change the default font size that KDE useses?

It is suggested that you add gnome-settings-daemon into ~/.kde/Autostart after setting the correct font sizes using gnome control center. this in theory is fine and fixes all the gnome apps fonts but it also changes the size of all the KDE fonts. Here comes the next problem, the KDE apps that are started prior to the gnome -settings-daemon all have the correct font size but the apps that are started after the gnome-settings-daemon all have smaller fonts which makes things look ugly.

Pretty much the way I solved this was by editing the startkde script and running the gnome-settings-daemon in there with a 3 second delay. This makes sure that it has loaded before KDE starts loading. Then you just set the KDE fonts to the same size as your gnome fonts and hey presto all of a sudden all your fonts are the same and look great!