Re: [Evolution] Font Control under KDE

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Sun, 2011-07-17 at 16:09 +0200, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El dÃÂa Sunday, July 17, 2011 a las 08:06:09AM -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan escribiÃÂ:
>
> > 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?
>
> Yes. In FreeBSD 'killall -s evolution' does not send any signal to
> a proc named 'evolution' but checks for existing.

You didn't say you were using FreeBSD (and the OP didn't say he was
using Linux, but it's usually a safe assumption). Now we know that Linux
and FreeBSD have different versions of killall.

BTW in Linux you would get the effect you want using "pgrep evolution".

poc