Hi, Since I while I am forced to shut down my Linux workstation when I leave my workplace. And since then I noticed that every time I boot again, and start my X, and open my apps like Gaim and Mozilla, the font used is HUGE (Helvetica, 12px, or something), while I have set the font to be Verdana, 9px using gnome-control-center's font-setting dialog.
Changing fontsettings there affects libgtk2-using applications like gaim & mozilla. Now, each time I boot and start X, I have to start gnome-control-center atleast once to have my fonts at my own preferred size. The moment I doubleclick the 'AaBb'-Font option and the window pops up, my fonts get set to Verdana, 9px like I want them to be. So, gnome/libgtk2 has stored it somewhere, it just needs to be activated. I don't use Gnome2 as a desktop manager, eg. I don't have panels running, I only use gaim, which links against libgtk2. So the problem is where gaim (and other libgtk2 using apps) don't start some component that gnome-control-center does start to load my own preferences. This is a bug, in my humble opinion. But I am not sure where to report it. Gaim? Mozilla? One of the hundreth gnome packages? :) I could use some advise here. Someone on IRC (IRCName: Tomas Gren, Nick: Stric on #debian-devel) told me it has to do with the X-servers XSETTINGS extension and pointed me to a site[1] where I found a tool to 'play around' with this extension. And indeed, when I run the 'xsettings-client' tool directly after starting X, there are no settings at all. Then when I start gnome-control-center and open the fonts dialog, the settings appear and have the correct values. So, could anyone please help me decide where to report this, and maybe solve this? I'm not that good at libgtk2 and the X server :| I don't think it should be necessary to run the complete gnome2 suite to have my fonts at my own preference ;) TIA, Sander. -- | Waarom worden mensen meteen geloofd als ze zeggen dat er aan de hemel | 400 biljoen sterren zijn, maar als je ze vertelt dat de deurpost pas | geverfd is moeten ze voelen! | 1024D/08CEC94D - 34B3 3314 B146 E13C 70C8 9BDB D463 7E41 08CE C94D