Re: How to set the font in gtk2

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Sven Neumann <sven gimp org> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> Xuedong Zhang <zxd bu edu> writes:
> 
> > But I cann't find a way to change the font in gtk2 program?
> > 
> > I put the following lines in my ~/.gtkrc-2.0 but it just did nothing
> > for my default fonts? ANy one can give me a suggestion that how
> > can I can change the default font?
> > 
> > 
> > style "user-font"
> > {
> >   font="-adobe-times-medium-r-normal-*-24-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1"
> > }
> > widget_class "*" style "user-font"
> 
> try this instead:
> 
> style "user-font"
> {
>   font_name="times 24"
> }
> widget_class "*" style "user-font"

Or even simpler:

 gtk-font-name = "Times 24"

[ This sets the GtkSetting for the default font rather than setting the font
  to something non-default for all widgets ]

Regards,
                                         Owen