Weird discovery tonight. Several people wisely suggested I start launching gnome-settings-daemon as part of my .xinitrc startup, and sure enough that brought all my applications in line with regards to correct icons and correct fonts. I was just doing ctrl-right-click in XTerm to pick a different font size from the VT Font Menu... and the font menu itself is nearly unreadable.
I installed some decorative fonts from Windows into my TrueType font folder, and alphabetically the first one is "1st Grader", a childlike crayon scrawl... and suddenly the fonts on every X application that does not specify its own fonts uses that scrawl by default. I removed my entire /usr/X11R7/share/X11/app-defaults folder to make sure nothing in X itself was causing this, then I logged on with my test account (which has an empty $HOME folder), and still the scrawl was there even with no personalized .gnome, .gnome2, .gconf, or .gconfd folders present. Only when I removed gnome-settings-daemon from .xinitrc did the fonts revert to something readable, so I know gnome itself is somehow causing this. But where? When I go into the font selection screen (gnome-font-properties) there is nothing about non-Gnome application fonts such as XTerm, and none of the font selections there refer to any of my TrueType decorative fonts. In any case, since the problem occurs even when I wipe all .g* folders out of $HOME, it's clearly a default coming from somewhere in the /usr/gnome2 tree. Needless to say, I never set up any configuration in the default folders there for the 1st-grader font. I'm guessing that somewhere along the line it is falling back to the first font it finds alphabetically, which would be 1st-grader. Is there a config program I can run within Gnome that would change the default non-Gnome font to something more appropriate? -- Peter B. Steiger Cheyenne, WY -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
