Hi all, I use dwm, a window manager that gives you no help with fonts: You need to modify fonts yourself.
Thunar and xchat had the tiniest fonts you can imagine. The ldd command revealed both are gtk2, so I followed tens of suggestions listed on the web (many contradictory, few explicit), to change gtk2 fonts with files like ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and ~/.gtkrc.mine, but nothing change. Finally I ran lxappearance changed the fonts that way, and Thunar and Xchat now had readable fonts. But of course, I use dwm for low memory usage, so I don't want to be running lxappearance every time I start X. And I don't have to. lxappearance does its magic by writing the *correct* stuff to ~/.gtkrc-2.0. From then on, that file remains, boot after boot, until something or somebody deliberately changes it. No further lxappearance runs needed. So, if anybody else has been tearing out their hair trying to follow all the contradictory Web suggestions for changing fonts on gtk2 apps, now you can save what hair you have left. SteveT Steve Litt * http://www.troubleshooters.com/ Troubleshooting Training * Human Performance -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140704112908.66654...@mydesq2.domain.cxm
