Finally fixed this on my end after reading through a few bugs. Everyone seems to be suggesting that you remove the file .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 and that you paste some info into .gtkrc.mine.
The funny part is that looking in .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 you will probably see an incude line for .gtkrc.mine. So how the heck will deleting .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 get anything that you paste into .gtkrc.mine to work? Here's what I did. In .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 paste the following: style "user-font" { fontset="-bitstream-bitstream vera sans-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15" } widget_class "*" style "user-font" Delete .gtkrc.mine Everything should work perfectly. I was only having trouble with audacity--and it is having no problems now. -- [Edgy] fonts are not displayed in GTK1 applications https://launchpad.net/bugs/62300 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs