On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 08:47:42AM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > 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?
Hm. Firefox is OK. xine has the same problem, but it is not compiled with GTK. Aha, gimp has exactly the same menu. So it is problem of GTK. > > In my case all gtk apps -- such as gimp, mozilla, .. were using the same > oversized and rather ugly font. > > I solved my global gtk font problems by editing the contents of: > > ~/.gtkrc > ~/.gtkrc-2.0 Hm. I didn't have neither of these files and didn't know how to create them. Googling didn't provide any samples neither. So, I guess this is a top secret info :) Fortunately I've found gtk-chtheme program and using it could set up better alternative. Thank you for the tip. -- Minds, like parachutes, function best when open
