> 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.
I checked the X resources with 'xrdb -query', and found the following Xft related settings: Xft.antialias: 0 Xft.hinting: 1 Xft.hintstyle: hintmedium Xft.rgba: rgb I don't know why Xft.antialias was set to 0, since from .fonts.conf I would think that it should be 1: The relevant part of .fonts.conf: <match target="font" > <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" > <bool>true</bool> </edit> </match> But setting 'Xft.antialias: 1' in .Xresources and running 'xrdb -merge .Xresources' has the same effect as running 'gnome-settings-daemon': it fixes the problem. But the strange thing is that this .Xresrouces setting is not persistent across logging out and then in, as all the other .Xresources settings I use are. So something must be altering the Xft.antialias setting from 1 to 0 when I log into KDE. Best regards Torquil Sørensen