Hope this is a simple question (sometimes seems nothing in Linux ever is)? How do you change and/or resize the fonts used on the Gnome desktop? I'm running Mandrake 8.2. I tried drakfont and it talked about installing fonts, but it's not clear to me if *installing* a font is the same as *using* it, or just makes it available. I tried Gnome Control Center > System > Font. Up popped the 0.11.0 prerelease of the Ximian Setup Tools, telling me the program might have "serious bugs" that might render my computer "PRACTICALLY USELESS" (shudder). So I clicked on "ok" and another window popped up telling me that "the platform you are running is not supported", although I could click on one of the listed supported platforms if I was sure mine worked the same way. Feeling brave, I click on "Linux Mandrake 8.0 Traktopel". Bingo! I get a screen with a list of fonts and sizes -- apparently. Problem is, I select something and the "apply" box remains greyed out. So I click on "Add font" and up pops a "Select file or dir" box. Now, I would have THOUGHT that the fonts listed were in the path or in some sense available to be selected, as is, but maybe I'm guilty of having a windows mindset. So what do I do now? Do I comb through the fonts directories until I find what I *think* is *maybe* the font and size I've selected? Or is it not that "simple"? I would be happy to RTFM if I knew which effin manual would lead me in the smallest circle. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks, Dale Huckeby
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