KDE and GNOME font problem

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Tuesday, August 10th 2004, 2:50am

Hi I have a problem with the fonts in KDE and Gnome. I use KDE but when I open some Gnome application like... i.e. gftp or lets say Firefox, Thunderbird, the fonts are so NOT TO LOOK AT (they are too close an look ugly

). I log into gnome to see is it happening the same there. The answer is no. Everithing runs ok with the fonts but when I open KDE application the fonts are bigger? Can any one tell me what is the problem I how to solve it?

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Demon

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Wednesday, August 11th 2004, 9:59pm

some apps were optimised to run on GNOME.

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seb

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Thursday, August 12th 2004, 2:15am

Get the gtk2+xft version of firefox from:

http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/0.9.3/firefox-0.9.3-i686-linux-gtk2+xft-installer.tar.gz

http://www.sebruiz.net/
http://amarok.kde.org

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MIsTeRIoZ

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Friday, August 13th 2004, 3:41am

Nothing is different

I've downloaded the mozilla package that you said but that's not solving the problem, but I've concluded that the probles is with the fonts DPI. Gnome and KDE have different dpi for the fonts. For example in mozilla and thunderbird in the Tools->Options->Fonts section you have to chage the dpi of the dispaly resolution so that you can view the fonts a little bit better (in a way). I tried to change the dpi i gnome for the fonts and still does not work. I really want someone to tell me how to solve this problem.

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Amoeba

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Friday, August 13th 2004, 9:34pm

GTK apps do not use any configuration made to the KDE environment. If you want to change GTK themes, you'll need to install a GTK theme switcher. I suggest GTK+ 2.0 theme switcher available @ http://plasmasturm.org/programs/gtk-chtheme

For Gentoo users, just[code:1]emerge =x11-themes/gtk-chtheme[/code:1]

This will at least allow you to manipulate fonts used by GTK2 apps (please note, this DOES NOT change GTK1 themes).

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Original von Demon

some apps were optimised to run on GNOME.

Since when? Applications are either built to use the QT, GTK1 or GTK2 libraries. I can't think of a single app "optimized" for Gnome. Just because an app is written to use GTK+ does not mean it's optimized for any WM/DE. Same applies to QT and KDE.

-- rm -fr /etc/whitehouse
-- Gentoo | udev | Xorg 6.8.2 | 2.6.14-r4 | KDE 3.5.0

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MIsTeRIoZ

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Sunday, August 15th 2004, 3:02am

Works

Thanks. this really works. You've help me a lot. Regards.

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