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Nick W l33t
Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 684
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Posted: Sun Dec 21, 2003 8:26 pm Post subject: Fonts Problems on my System |
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Hi all,
I have some font issues (across all installed desktops) in Mozilla and Gimp and some other bits and pieces. The fonts are TINY on the menus, and if I run the Mozilla profile mgr for example, they are almost illegible.
I've been throug the kde control center and all the obvois things and am now thinking that maybe I need to configre QT or GTK - I have run the qt-config program and chosen large fonts, so that isn't it. But I can't find anything to alter GTK stuff.....
Can anyone help me pinpoint the problem? .- it's really makeing things a bit tough....
PS, I have this in make.conf
USE="-gtk -gnome kde qt alsa -dvd -cdr"
(although I tried adding gtk to my latest Moz build..)
Thanks
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Nick W l33t
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Posted: Mon Dec 22, 2003 9:17 am Post subject: |
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Update: I emerged Gnome overnight, in Gnome, it works great, with reasonable font sizes etc.......
Is it somthing in the way I compiled KDE and other Deskstops? Perhaps to do with my USE settings above?
Hope that gives someone a better idea......
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troworld Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 20 Dec 2003 Posts: 95 Location: ON, CA
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Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 12:48 am Post subject: |
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No solution for you, but I might be having the same problem.
See this screenshot: [link expired]
Is this what you're experiencing?
Last edited by troworld on Fri Jan 28, 2005 6:35 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Nick W l33t
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Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 11:53 am Post subject: |
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Yep, same thing here......
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troworld Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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Hmm .. it's strange. The font size isn't in any of the configurations.
Do you have GNOME installed? Do you have -gnome -gtk set in your USE vars? I really don't know, but maybe the fonts rely on GTK support?? |
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DonHora n00b
Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 60 Location: Lyon, France
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malloc l33t
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Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 7:13 pm Post subject: |
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I don't know if it's the same but i have a similar problem.
Some fonts just become so tiny they're unreadable.
I'm using kahakai, but it's also happened in fluxbox. I've narrowed down the problem to xfs and to aliased fonts. un-aliased fonts keep their size, aliased ones just become tiny.
This doesn't happen often, however when it happens, no matter how many times i reboot X or even reboot the box, things keep the same until some random time i shutdown X and it gives me a warning like this...
Code: | FreeFontPath: FPE "unix/:-1" refcount is 2 should be 1, fixing |
After this warning things get back to normal. I've googled my ass off and every thing i've found about this were questions that nobody was able to answer. |
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troworld Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 12:45 am Post subject: |
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what did you put for your include "<theme>"? i can't really find an equivalent here.
having no luck with this, although I do believe this has something to do with gtk settings. |
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troworld Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 1:08 am Post subject: |
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Just tried running MLDonkey with a GTK gui. The fonts are tiny again and this is what I got on stderr:
Gdk-WARNING **: Missing charsets in FontSet creation
I get the same thing when running xmms from command line.
Could this be the problem? |
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egthompson n00b
Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 39 Location: Somerville, AL
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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 3:50 am Post subject: |
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I had some problems like this recently and googled up a solution.
Make sure you have
DisplaySize 279 203
in the Monitor section of your XF86config file. My monitor is 279mm wide and 203mm in height. This seems to have fixed many of the font problems I was having and seems to make kde, gtk, and fluxbox all look the same as far as fonts are concerned. |
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troworld Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 5:07 am Post subject: |
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egthompson, I tried that and it made the fonts that were working huge, but the ones that were tiny stayed tiny.
I have a 17'' ViewSonic 17PS |
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egthompson n00b
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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 5:51 am Post subject: |
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troworld wrote: | egthompson, I tried that and it made the fonts that were working huge, but the ones that were tiny stayed tiny.
I have a 17'' ViewSonic 17PS |
Are you running gnome-settings-daemon? |
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Nick W l33t
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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 11:59 am Post subject: |
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Worked great for me, thanks. I just put a valid font in the config file and all is well again
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troworld Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 3:41 pm Post subject: |
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Nick W wrote: | Worked great for me, thanks. I just put a valid font in the config file and all is well again
Nick |
Which config file?
egthompson wrote: | Are you running gnome-settings-daemon? |
It's not anything that I see in my processes and I don't think that's anything that I can run. I don't have GNOME installed; just KDE. |
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DonHora n00b
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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 11:13 pm Post subject: |
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If you don't have gnome installed then you don't have gnome-settings-daemon.
You can emerge gtk-theme-switcher (I think it's called like that) and then run the switch2 program. It will create a $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 for you. Then edit this file and add 'gtk-font-name = "Bitstream Vera Sans 12"' at the beginning. I have 'gtk-font-name = "Verdana 11"', so you see you can choose a different font if you didn't installed bitstream vera. |
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troworld Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 11:47 pm Post subject: |
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DonHora wrote: | If you don't have gnome installed then you don't have gnome-settings-daemon.
You can emerge gtk-theme-switcher (I think it's called like that) and then run the switch2 program. It will create a $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0 for you. Then edit this file and add 'gtk-font-name = "Bitstream Vera Sans 12"' at the beginning. I have 'gtk-font-name = "Verdana 11"', so you see you can choose a different font if you didn't installed bitstream vera. |
I've done this and nothing's changed. Some applications (like jpilot use the new theme and font), but XMMS, MLDonkey, GIMP still show tiny fonts. I'm going to try installing GNOME. Maybe it'll solve this. |
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troworld Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 4:29 am Post subject: |
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Tried installing GNOME. Nothing's changed. I've tried editing multiple files and restarted the applications with small fonts, but to no avail. |
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troworld Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:45 am Post subject: |
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still unsolved ... |
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Nick W l33t
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Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2004 12:43 am Post subject: |
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What does ur gtk file look like, and what's it called?
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DonHora n00b
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troworld Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:23 am Post subject: |
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Nick W wrote: | What does ur gtk file look like, and what's it called? |
the file is in my home dir. .gtkrc-2.0 :
Code: | # -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
include "/usr/share/themes/AquaLightBlue/gtk-2.0/gtkrc"
gtk-font-name = "Verdana 9"
include "/home/tro/.gtkrc.mine"
# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT |
Note: GAIM correctly sees the Verdana font and applies it. The same works for Mozilla Thunderbird. XMMS, GIMP, MLDonkey GUI continue to show tiny fonts.
Thanks for the link. But GAIM reads the file correctly. I'm having problems with the above mentioned apps. |
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troworld Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 2:36 am Post subject: |
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I think I know where the problem lies. I don't know how to fix it, though.
.gtkrc-2.0 is responsible for gtk 2 applications only. I found that out by first running gkrellm2, which got my fonts identified properly, and then running gkrellm, which had tiny fonts. This leads me to believe that I must have another file for gtk 1 application which would specify the font.
Does anyone know of such file? I suspect .gtkrc ?? |
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Nick W l33t
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Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 7:22 am Post subject: |
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This is what's in my home dir:
.gtkrc .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 .gtkrc-2.0 .gtkrc-kde
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troworld Tux's lil' helper
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Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:45 am Post subject: |
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Nick W wrote: | This is what's in my home dir:
.gtkrc .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 .gtkrc-2.0 .gtkrc-kde
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could you post the contents of all those files, except for .gtkrc-2.0?
Thanks. |
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Nick W l33t
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Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 2:02 pm Post subject: |
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well, .gtkrc only has xfce stuff in it and the others dont look to helpful either, but there they are:
.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2
# Autowritten by gnome-settings-daemon. Do not edit
include "/usr/share/themes/Raleigh/gtk/gtkrc"
include "/home/nick/.gtkrc.mine"
.gtkrc-kde
# Appearance & Themes -> Colors in the Control Center and disable the checkbox
# "Apply colors to non-KDE applications"
#
#
style "default"
{
bg[NORMAL] = { 0.863, 0.863, 0.863 }
bg[SELECTED] = { 0.039, 0.373, 0.537 }
bg[INSENSITIVE] = { 0.863, 0.863, 0.863 }
bg[ACTIVE] = { 0.718, 0.718, 0.718 }
bg[PRELIGHT] = { 0.863, 0.863, 0.863 }
base[NORMAL] = { 1.000, 1.000, 1.000 }
base[SELECTED] = { 0.039, 0.373, 0.537 }
base[INSENSITIVE] = { 0.863, 0.863, 0.863 }
base[ACTIVE] = { 1.000, 1.000, 1.000 }
base[PRELIGHT] = { 1.000, 1.000, 1.000 }
text[NORMAL] = { 0.000, 0.000, 0.000 }
text[SELECTED] = { 1.000, 1.000, 1.000 }
text[INSENSITIVE] = { 0.718, 0.718, 0.718 }
text[ACTIVE] = { 0.000, 0.000, 0.000 }
text[PRELIGHT] = { 0.000, 0.000, 0.000 }
fg[NORMAL] = { 0.000, 0.000, 0.000 }
fg[SELECTED] = { 1.000, 1.000, 1.000 }
fg[INSENSITIVE] = { 0.718, 0.718, 0.718 }
fg[ACTIVE] = { 0.000, 0.000, 0.000 }
fg[PRELIGHT] = { 0.000, 0.000, 0.000 }
}
33,1 50%
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