Hello, maybe you remember this thread as of a few weeks ago. My problem is that the user interface font in OpenOffice is gargantuan when run under fvwm.
However, during my recent experiments with gnome-desktop-environment (which also messed up my cursor theme, thanks for the update-alternatives tip) I discovered that Oo looks just fine! Small fonts, nicely integrated with the look of the whole desktop. My question is: Where the hell does OO get its ideas about UI fonts? Can only be through environment variables, can't it? So I dumped the shell environment variables once from a terminal in the gnome desktop and once from fvwm. Both terminals had been used to start OO from the command line. I then diffed one environment against the other with $ diff environment_fvwm environment_gnome The result is attached below. Of course the line GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/dh/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 immediately caught my attention, so I exported that variable in a shell in fvwm and started OO, but to no avail. So, again: Where does OO get its UI font ideas? Thanks, --D. Below is the complete environment diff: 13c13,14 < COLUMNS=120 --- > COLORTERM=gnome-terminal > COLUMNS=80 15c16 < DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-HtM8H5oNK9,guid=e32c94f9ccdfe9405b4ec00045dbfe09 --- > DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-DrDTw89ZfL,guid=b3232343a1a9051e9a857a0045dbfddd 16a18 > DESKTOP_STARTUP_ID= 21,22c23,24 < FVWM_MODULEDIR=/usr/lib/fvwm/2.5.18 < FVWM_USERDIR=/home/dh/.fvwm --- > GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=Default > GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-VwW1nf/socket 23a26 > GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/dh/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2 28d30 < HOSTDISPLAY=kir:0.0 33c35 < LINES=64 --- > LINES=24 44c46 < PPID=3932 --- > PPID=3795 49a52 > SESSION_MANAGER=local/kir:/tmp/.ICE-unix/3659 53,54c56,57 < SSH_AGENT_PID=3917 < SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-KsErVB3865/agent.3865 --- > SSH_AGENT_PID=3711 > SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/ssh-OMHUil3659/agent.3659 59c62 < WINDOWID=6291471 --- > WINDOWID=33554512 61,62d63 < XTERM_SHELL=/bin/bash < XTERM_VERSION='XTerm(222)' Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2007 12:20:27 +0100 > Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 10:06 +0100, Dan H. wrote: >>> After a sarge->etch (and, consequently, oo-1.2 -> oo2.0) upgrade I >>> found that all fonts in menus and dialog boxes are huge (see >> [...] >>> As you can see in the dialog box in that screenshot, there is a "Use >>> system font for user interface" checkbox. Unclicking it and >>> re-starting the app doesn't make any difference at all, neither >>> does changing default fonts in a KDE desktop environment >> I see this too, in a GNOME environment. My fonts are not larger than >> the default ones, but different and with worse anti-aliasing. > > I think there is an issue with OOo and freetype 2.2.x in > testing/unstable. I compiled freetype 2.1.10, copied the libraries > to /usr/local/lib/freetype-2.1.10, and put the following line > in /usr/bin/oowrapper: > > $ENV{LD_PRELOAD} = > '/usr/local/lib/freetype-2.1.10/libfreetype.so.6'; > > Drastic measures, I know! The result is quite pleasing though: > > http://otoole.webhop.org/desktop/OOo.png > >> Apparently, you and I are not alone, a quick check in the bug tracker >> show quite a few similar bugs, 340029, 351781, 357356, 376878, >> 400419... and a few others I'm sure. >> > > >
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