Re: [Evolution] Fontsize-KDE

[Ron Eggler <ron rideon ch>]

On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 10:22 +0800, Murray Trainer wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 03:20 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote:
> > hi ron,
> >
> > Am Sonntag, den 18.06.2006, 17:01 -0700 schrieb Ron Eggler:
> > > I was wondering why the fontsizes in evolution don't fit the fontsizes
> > > set in KDE. Am I missing any setting in evolution or am I possibly
> > > missing any Gnome<->KDE connection libarary or so? I set all KDE fonts
> > > to 8 points and Evolution is still with 10point fonts.
> >
> > why should evolution care about your kde settings? evolution is a gome
> > application. :-)
> >
> > use "gconf-editor" to change the keys
> > in /apps/evolution/mail/display/fonts and/or try to run
> > "gnome-font-properties".
>
> I am running Gnome apps under KDE and I had a lot of trouble getting the
> KDE and Gnome font sizes to match.  I eventually I found I had to do the
> following to make all my KDE, Gnome and GTK application fonts
> consistent:
>
> 1. Start the gnome-settings-daemon via a KDE startup file.
> 2. Remove the xscreensaver package that the gnome-settings-daemon
> started as I couldn't stop it being started.
> 3. Install gtk-qt-engine which gives a option under KDE control center
> to sync GTK fonts with KDE fonts
> 4. Add a .Xresources file to user home directories containing the line:
> Xft.dpi: 96

HUH, strange, I just booted up my computer, evolution was starting and
the fontsize was like it's supposed to be :D
I've restarted KDE before several times, never had luck, awesome but i
don't know how or why...
anyways...I probably gotta do your thing anyways if it's 'falling'
back...
Thanks!

Ron