Fonts In Non-KDE Apps Ridiculously Small

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kiteless

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Wednesday, February 25th 2004, 6:33pm

Fonts In Non-KDE Apps Ridiculously Small

Hi folks, I've seen this question posted a few times but no answers. Hopefully someone will see this one and have some ideas. I run Mozilla Firefox and Gaim, both which are non-kde apps. In each of these prgrams, the menu bars, general fonts, and any fields where you can type, the font is ridiculously small. I can barely see what I am typing at the moment. This happened when I originally emerged KDE 3.2. Once, after a reboot without changing anything, it fixed itself. Now, after another reboot, the fonts are back to tiny. I didn't even touch the control center. :roll: Does anyone know where these Non-KDE fonts are described, so I can change them? I am running Gentoo, and as far as i know, I don't have gnome installed anywhere, just GTK. I can include screen shots if you are really curious. Thanks!

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Suselinux

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Posts: 39

Thursday, February 26th 2004, 3:45am

well you should be able to increase fonts thru the "Control Center"

Control Center -> Appearance & themes -> Fonts increase the size hopefully this helps.

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kiteless

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Posts: 2

Thursday, February 26th 2004, 10:01pm

Thats the thing, I can make my font comic sans size 72, and it doesn't affect these applications. I am totally at a loss as to why this is happening. It seems that KDE isn't enforcing its fonts on non-kde apps. There used to be an option somewhere that was use KDE fonts and colours on non-kde apps, but that no longer exsists.

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gwyn

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Location: Aviano (PN) Italia

Occupation: Technically retired

Thursday, February 26th 2004, 10:35pm

I don't know if this will help, but some time ago I had the opposite problem ie fonts in non-kde apps were ridiculously large -- a single letter was taller than the screen. It turned out to be related to the X screen resolution. Changing this to 96 from 1 solved the problem. Is your resolution perhaps too big?

I think this can be set in /etc/XF86Config or /etc/XF86Config-4 but it was a long time ago and I've unfortunately forgotten where I atually changed the setting.

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Suselinux

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Posts: 39

Saturday, February 28th 2004, 4:09am

what distro are you using kiteless cuz diff distro does diff thing diff way.

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henrilefranc

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Posts: 3

Monday, March 8th 2004, 8:32pm

Hi,

You can change the dpi in kdm configuration. In the file /etc/kde3/kdm/Xservers, add -dpi 96 after /usr/X11R6/bin/X :

:0 local@tty1 /usr/X11R6/bin/X -dpi 96 -nolisten tcp vt7

Hope it will be useful

...

Henri L.

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Scribbler

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Posts: 36

Location: Aurora CO

Monday, March 8th 2004, 9:19pm

To change Firefox's appearance, you can either set the options within the app's own font settings...

However you'd probably be better off just changing the font settings in the gnome-control-center. FF is a gtk app.

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suseu

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Posts: 15

Monday, March 8th 2004, 9:49pm

i have the same problem but only with mozilla firefox. other gtk2 apps are ok.
i'm using debian unstable.

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andymullins

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Posts: 4

Wednesday, April 14th 2004, 11:33am

Have you tried editing your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file?

Mine simply has one line:

gtk-font-name = "Luxi Sans 12"

The Firefox fonts are exactly the same as my other KDE apps (default font Luxi Sans).

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