On Sat, Sep 18, 2004 at 07:38:51PM +0100, Andre Baryudin wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have returned to my roots - that is, dumped KDE in favor of FVWM2, which was my first window manager. The start-up time dropped dramatically, and I also was able to configure it to my liking, excluding a single problem.
It looks like KDE influences fonts, used by all applications (not only KDE ones). Now, when I use FVWM2, the fonts used are much smaller. For instance, Firefox, Gaim, Skype - all run with much smaller fonts that they used to have under KDE.
The question, therefore, is how I can influence the default font used by all applications? I don't want a per application solution, since it will involve too much hassle.
Please note, that I didn't do any other changes to my system, aside from switching to FVWM2, in particular, I didn't remove any fonts, and KDE is actually still installed.
Regards,
Andre.
Did you change the display manager (kdm/xdm/...) or are you starting X from the command line?
I am not sure if that is the problem, but IIRC kde plays with the dpi option which affects the font size (I think kde uses -dpi 100).
try starting X with startx -- -dpi 100 and startx -- -dpi 75 and see if either has the effect you want.
I don't have KDE installed but IIRC it goes with the dpi of X without modifying it. OTOH gnome and XFCE (i.e: gtk+ apps/DEs) do modify (f.ex: they default to 96 dpi, while the the LCD on my laptop is 75 dpi).
Make sure the gtk+ font's dpi matches X ( xdpyinfo | grep dots ) .
-- Meir Kriheli http://mksoft.co.il
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