Re: Changing fonts in Gnome applications

["Jesse D. Sightler" <jsight pair com>]

I believe that this can also be done from the GTK Theme capplet under
control-center.

Sri Ramkrishna wrote:
> 
> >
> > On Tue, 8 Jun 1999, Gary R. Walsh wrote:
> > > How do you change fonts in Gnome applications?  In OS/2 one can just
> > > drag and drop from the Font Palette to any window, sub-window or menu,
> > > etc. to change any font.  I am running at 1280X1024 and I find the
> > > fonts in many Gnome and X applications too tiny and I can't seem to
> > > figure out how to change the them.
> > >
> >
> > For Gtk/Gnome apps, put something like this in your ~/.gtkrc:
> 
> Of course, this begs to be something that should be incorporated into the
> GNOME desktop.  A desktop user will probably not want to edit a .gtkrc to
> change a font.  So this is something we should get volunteers to hack at.
> I think someone has already taken a step in the right direction with the
> colors patch I saw for the control panel.
> 
>         sri
> 
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