Re: What is gtkmm default font and size?

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 21:12 +0100, Chris Vine wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 June 2005 14:48, John Taber wrote:
> > When a gtkmm program (and any gtk program for that matter) runs under
> > Gnome, the fonts are nice, but when it is run under KDE, the fonts are
> > terrible - what font and size does gtkmm default to?  I would assume this
> > is best addressed from the user settings (in KDE the Control Center allows
> > user to select font and size for various types).
> 
> If you are running it under KDE then the gnome settings daemon will not be 
> running.  You have two options:
> 
> 1.  Amend/provide {gtkdir}/etc/gtk-2.0/gtkrc to specify fonts and anything 
> else you think important.
> 
> 2.  Start {gnomedir}/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon in the startkde script, 
> which will pick up all your Gnome settings, including fonts and styles.

This all sounds excessively awkward. If your GTK+-based applications
don't work properly when using KDE, then it's an issue for your
vendor/distro.

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