On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 05:53:56AM EDT, Andrei A. Voropaev wrote: > Hi! > > Can anyone explain me how the font for menu in GUI is selected? I have 3 > computers with the same set of fonts and the same configuration for > fonconfig, the same version of gvim (different GTK though) and on all > 3 machines I get different menu font :) The worse is on the laptop. > There the font is large and in Bold, so it takes quite a big portion of > the fairly small screen :)
Does this affect all gtk apps or just gvim? In my case all gtk apps -- such as gimp, mozilla, .. were using the same oversized and rather ugly font. If you problem is only with gvim you can probably ignore the following. I solved my global gtk font problems by editing the contents of: ~/.gtkrc ~/.gtkrc-2.0 ..yes, *both* of them *and* on the same system..!! Other options: . if you have the gnome desktop installed there is a nice interactive option that let's you change gtk menu/dialog fonts (sizes.. styles..) . if you don't have access to gnome you could try gtk-theme-switch or gtk-theme-switch2 that also let you change gtk fonts on the fly. If would be careful editing the .gtkrc files.. IIRC, there's a comment in the default files that says something like "automatically gen'd.. don't edit.." so you probably want to save their current contents somewhere before doing anything. Thanks cga
