On Wednesday, 12 בJanuary 2005 18:18, solomon wrote:
> I do understand that, but it still doesn't explain why only SOME
> applications have unreadable fonts. I tried running the three
> applications I mentioned earlier (linneighborhood, usbview and
> jpilot) from the command line in the hope that there would be some
> helpful output (maybe a missing library or font) but had no luck. I
> also don't think that GNOME is the problem since GNOME applications
> (for instance Galeon) look fine on my KDE desktop.
Ok, my mistake. I was under the impression that those applications where
GTK+ 2 applications and as such suceptible to GNOME font settings. at
least jpilot which I installed and tested is GTK+ 1 application and
uses different font settings.
I didn't find a way to set it using a managment tool (anyone care to
offer one ?), but its fairly easy to change the fonts by editing
the .gtkrc file in your home directory.
First install galaxy-gnome so that Mandrake's galaxy theme for GTK will
be installed (later you can get more themes from other places, but lets
start with something that we know to work). now edit your .gtkrc, and
add in the front of the file (above all the "don't edit" warnings)
something like this:
style "user-font" {
fontset =
"-microsoft-tahoma-medium-r-normal-*-*-100-*-*-p-*-viscii1.1-1"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"
you can of course use any other font definition such as what you get
from xfontsel, but the above gives a much improved look (with addition
of the galaxy theme). The fonts still look jagged with sharp edges, but
I didn't find what I need to install to get font anti-aliasing for
gtk-1. I know its possible, but I don't think Mandrake has the required
libraries.
GNOME and KDE apps (basicly all QT and GTK+2 apps) has font
anti-aliasing and look so much better for it.
--
Oded
::..
"I would have promised those terrorists a trip to Disneyland if it would
have gotten the hostages released. I thank God they were satisfied
with the missiles and we didn't have to go to that extreme."
-- Oliver North
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