Re: [Evolution] control font size of Gnome applications within KDE4 on FreeBSD

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

On Thu, 2016-01-28 at 09:25 +0100, Matthias Apitz wrote:
> El día Thursday, January 28, 2016 a las 07:30:03AM +0000, Pete Biggs
> escribió:
>
> > > > The font control for Gnome is now in 'gnome-tweak-tool'.
> > >
> > > Thanks for that hint. I installed it from the ports, but it gives
> > > only:
> > >
> > > $ gnome-tweak-tool 
> > > WARNING : Shell not installed or running
> >
> > > No window comes up. Amy idea?
> >
> > I suspect that the lack of Gnome Shell is causing it problems -
> > much of
> > the functionality of gnome-tweak-tool is to do with Gnome Shell.
>
> What is the Gnome Shell exactly?

It's the name for the Gnome window manager.  From the man page:

     GNOME shell provides core user interface functions for the GNOME 3
     desktop, like switching to windows and launching applications. 


>  Some background service or something
> like a "terminal" wherein gnome-tweak-tool must be started? I'm
> asking
> because there is a port in FreeBSD...

If you ran Gnome shell you would be running Gnome not KDE, which I
presume you don't actually want to do.

P.