Re: Newbie: Stuck with ugly fonts in GTK

[Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>]

Hi,

"Tweaki JDG" <tweaki1 hotmail com> writes:

> I upgraded RH7.1 Gnome 1.2 to RH7.2 Gnome 1.4 manually and in the
> transition I suddenly lost the 'nice' font support for GTK. The only
> thing I got left is this ugly fixed font in my menus.
> 
> I can switch GTK themes as much as I like; nothing changes; If I
> select "Choose own font" + Helvetica (or other) from the Theme
> selector; nothing changes; I manually updated my .gtkrc file; nothing
> changes; I manually updated the themes gtk/gtkrc file; nothing
> changes; I checked the /etc/skel/gtkrc file; no font information;
> --"nothing changes" means the font doesn't change - some files are
> updated though--
> 
> I could install Ximian Gnome, maybe that works, but I don't like what
> Ximian did to Gnome, so that's not an option.
> 
> I got a hunch, that it might have something to do with my locale
> setting. 'locale' returns: nl_NL euro I can imagine that GTK doesn't
> know the euro thing and expects something like ISO8859-1 or 8859-2.

did you try to include /etc/gtkrc/gtkrc.iso-8859-15 from your .gtkrc?


Salut, Sven