On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:54:16AM -0500, Ben Kelly wrote: > On Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:13 am, Shaw Vrana wrote: > > I just performed an emerge -Du world and found that the fonts in the few > > gtk apps that I use (gaim and wireshark) have now become quite ugly. I > > followed the wiki at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts to > > beautify a while back and the changes I made there have remained intact > > through the update. > > Are you running KDE with the gtk-qt theme engine? If so, I had a similar > problem with fonts no longer being anti-aliased in gaim. I found the > solution on this page: > > http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=9714 > > Basically you need to change your General font setting in the control center. > > Once you make a change (any change) you can change it back to how you had it > originally. Once you restart your gtk applications the fonts should be > aliased again. There is no explanation for why this works, but it resolved > the issue for me.
Wow, you're right, that fixed it! But I'm using the Crystal SVG theme. I wonder what causes this nastiness? I'll hunt around for an appropriate KDE mailing list and report it there. Thank you! Shaw -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
