Fonts Problems on my System

Nick W · l33t Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 684

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

Nick

Nick W · l33t Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 684

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......

Nick

troworld · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 12:48 am Post subject:

No solution for you, but I might be having the same problem.

See this screenshot: [link expired]

Is this what you're experiencing?

Nick W · l33t Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 684

Yep, same thing here......

Nick

troworld · Posted: Fri Dec 26, 2003 5:57 pm Post subject:

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??

DonHora · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 60 Location: Lyon, France

I had the same problem. You must change the default font of GTK. See how to do this on this page : http://www.datiku.com/tutorials/gnulinux/easy_gtk_on_kde.htm

malloc · l33t Joined: 19 Sep 2003 Posts: 762

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...

troworld · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 12:45 am Post subject:

troworld · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 1:08 am Post subject:

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?

egthompson · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 3:50 am Post subject:

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.

troworld · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 5:07 am Post subject:

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

egthompson · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 5:51 am Post subject:

Nick W · l33t Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 684

Worked great for me, thanks. I just put a valid font in the config file and all is well again

Nick

troworld · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 3:41 pm Post subject:

DonHora · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 60 Location: Lyon, France

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.

troworld · Posted: Sat Dec 27, 2003 11:47 pm Post subject:

troworld · Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2003 4:29 am Post subject:

Tried installing GNOME. Nothing's changed. I've tried editing multiple files and restarted the applications with small fonts, but to no avail.

troworld · Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2004 3:45 am Post subject:

still unsolved ...

Nick W · l33t Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 684

What does ur gtk file look like, and what's it called?

Nick

DonHora · n00b Joined: 04 Sep 2003 Posts: 60 Location: Lyon, France

Look at this : http://gaim.sourceforge.net/faq.php#q19. It works fine on my PC now.

troworld · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 12:23 am Post subject:

troworld · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 2:36 am Post subject:

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 ??

Nick W · l33t Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 684

This is what's in my home dir:

.gtkrc .gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 .gtkrc-2.0 .gtkrc-kde

Nick

troworld · Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2004 11:45 am Post subject:

Nick W · l33t Joined: 07 Dec 2003 Posts: 684

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%

Nick