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cbeley
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 Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:20 pm Post subject: GTK1 fonts huge and cannot change [SOLVED!] |
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Two programs that I use quite a bit: pidgin and wifiradar, both have huge fonts compared with everything else. To have gtk2 fonts look right I currently have the following in .gtkrc-2.0:
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style "user-font"
{
font_name="Verdana 12"
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widget_class "*" style "user-font"
gtk-font-name="Verdana 8"
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I tried creating a new file called .gtkrc and adding the above to it with no luck. I also tried renaming the file to .gtkrc-1, .gtkrc-1.2, and .gtkrc-1.0 still with no luck.
Next thing I tried was to change it globally, but I do not have a /etc/gtk-1.0 folder (just /etc/gtk-2.0).
What is peculiar about this is that the only things done to cause this was a kernel upgrade, xorg upgrade to 1.6.1.901-r3, and now editing /usr/kde/3.5/share/config/kdm/kdmrc 's ServerArgsLocal attribute to include -dpi 96 to temporarily fix another problem I was having.
Any ideas on how to get my GTK1 fonts working again? I can live with huge fonts for wifi-radar considering I don't look at it that much, but I use pidgin all the time :S
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yumyum
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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try creating a ~/.gtkrc.mine and editing that file.
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cbeley
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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thanks, but I actually tried that also, and either way, I don't think .gtkrc.mine is standard anyway.
For kicks, I tried it again, and restarted pidgin with no change.  |
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yumyum
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 6:49 pm Post subject: |
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Yea, sorry I can't help any further, but doesn't pidgin use gtk2 ?
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cbeley
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That's what I thought, but according to portage it only has the gtk use flag, and not gtk2 ....that's another thing I'm a little confused about.
EDIT: It must be GTK2 since it seems to be using my GTK2 theme....but....that doesn't explain the font issues.
I even tried using pidgins GTK editor plugin with no luck :S
EDIT2: The same goes for wifi-radar. It also appears to be using my GTK2 theme. So, now I"m really confused, because my little trick in my first post should adjust the fonts for those two applications.
EDIT3: According to http://developer.pidgin.im/wiki/Using%20Pidgin#HowdoIchangethefontPidginusesThebackgroundcolor , what I have done should do the trick. But, for whatever reason, pidgin and wifi-radar seem to be ignoring .gtkrc-2.0 . Pidgin even ignores its own .purple/gtkrc-2.0 file :S |
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:13 pm Post subject: |
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Does the following work? Add the following to ~/.Xdefaults
Then do a | Code: | | xrdb -load ~/.Xdefault |
Now open pidgin/wifi-radar.
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cbeley
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| Posted: Sun Jun 21, 2009 9:26 pm Post subject: |
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| ppurka wrote: | Does the following work? Add the following to ~/.Xdefaults
Then do a | Code: | | xrdb -load ~/.Xdefault |
Now open pidgin/wifi-radar. |
No luck I actually had something similar set up in there already (used xft.dpi instead though) and had it looked at at boot before your suggestion as well.
EDIT: Alright, I found out something very interesting. If I remove my .gtkrc-2.0 file or comment out what I had in it (mentioned in my first post), the fonts are correct in pidgin and wifi-radar. However, when I do that, the fonts in firefox, thunderbird, etc. are messed up again.
EDIT2: ALRIGHT! I found a solution. I changed my .gtkrc-2.0 file so that it only contains the following (left out my theme stuff):
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gtk-font-name="Verdana 8"
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Now all my gtk apps have fonts that look correct.  For whatever reason, the style was messing something up. |
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