Re: [Evolution] Font Control under KDE

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 08:38 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El dÃÂa Saturday, July 16, 2011 a las 11:05:00PM -0700, Jonathan Ryshpan escribiÃÂ:
>
> > I have just switched from gnome to KDE (since I don't like gnome's new
> > window model). Unfortunately, evolution seems to take its font control
> > only from gnome.  Evolution's internal font control doesn't seem to do
> > anything, nor does KDE font control.  
> >
> > Does anyone know how to control evolution's fonts under KDE?  In the
> > past, I ran a gnome daemon and a utility to set evolution's font size,
> > but this was about 5 years ago, and much has changed since then.
>
> I'm using Evo in KDE3 environment in daily business; I start
> it with a script (behind a desktop icon) like this:
>
> #!/bin/sh
>
> # check if Evo is up already
> #
> killall -s evolution && {
>     xmessage 'Seems that Evo is up already...'
>     exit 0
> }

According to killall(1), -s takes a signal as argument. Are you sure
this doing what you think?

> # could also be launched via ~/.xinitrc
> #
> /usr/local/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon &
> sleep 2

Again, are you sure this does what you think? For one thing, it's not
actually executing Evolution.

I start Evo under KDE by clicking on the "Groupware Suite" icon, or just
typing "evolution". Everything just works. This is on Fedora 15.

poc