Re: Newbie: Stuck with ugly fonts in GTK

["Tweaki JDG" <tweaki1 hotmail com>]

> From: Sven Neumann <sven gimp org>
> To: "Tweaki JDG" <tweaki1 hotmail com>
> CC: gtk-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Newbie: Stuck with ugly fonts in GTK
> Date: 15 Nov 2001 12:13:12 +0100
>
> 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

I did, my .gtkrc now looks like:# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT
include "/usr/share/themes/Raleigh/gtk/gtkrc"
include "/etc/gtk/gtkrc.iso885915"
style "user-font"
{
 font="-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal-*-12-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

include "/home/nl31605/.gtkrc.mine"

# -- THEME AUTO-WRITTEN DO NOT EDIT


I then logged out, restarted X, logged back in; nothing changed :-(
I also tried to include gtkrc.iso-88592, with lucidux font for iso8859-2, 
didn't work either.

I think what I now got is some kind of fixed, 2-bit font...

It's one big blurry puzzle right now...

Thanks, John.

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