On Sun, Jul 23, 2006 at 18:36:49 +0200, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote: > > With KDE it is of course possible to fine-tune the font settings in a nice > > menu which uses the proper technical terms. Just go to "Control Center > > > Appearance & Themes > Fonts" and select "Use anti-aliasing for fonts". You > > can use the "Configure..." button to set the hinting style, etc. Your > > ~/.fonts.conf will be rewritten accordingly as soon as you press "Apply" or > > "OK". You have to log out and log in again for the setting to take effect, > > though (if I remember correctly). I never had to use the > > gnome-control-center after that, and the text rendering in all my GTK2 > > applications is fine. > > Yes, you are right. The KDE control center does indeed modify .fonts.conf. So > I have activated the anti-aliasing from there instead. But the GTK bug is > around until I start gnome-control-center (or gnome-settings-daemon). I can > see that after logging in to KDE, my GTK apps are not anti-aliased until I > run one of those commands, even though .fonts.conf says that they should be. > This is independent of $GDK_USE_XFT=0/1. But after I run > gnome-settings-daemon or gnome-control-center, fonts in GTK apps become > anti-aliased and smaller, and the bug disappears. In addition KDE fonts also > become smaller. All this while not changing .fonts.conf at all...
I also had this problem of the gnome-control-center screwing with the font sizes; that is one of the reasons why I never open it anymore. So, what is the difference between your setup and mine? Maybe it is a setting in ~/.gtkrc-2.0. Here is what I have (I had gtk2-engines-gtk-qt installed at one point): # This file was written by KDE # You can edit it in the KDE control center, under "GTK Styles and Fonts" include "/usr/share/themes/Qt/gtk-2.0/gtkrc" style "user-font" { font_name="Bitstream Vera Sans 11" } widget_class "*" style "user-font" gtk-theme-name="Qt" gtk-font-name="Bitstream Vera Sans 11" # ~/.gtkrc-2.0 ends above this line Maybe it is something in the general X setup. Do you run a font server? I use xfs and have it listed as the first FontPath in my xorg.conf. -- Regards, Florian