I am running Sid. I have fluxbox, gnome-control-center, gtk-theme-switch, and ttf-bitstream-vera installed.
In gtk-theme-switch, I've set my font to Vera-8 for gtk-theme-switch and gtk2-theme-switch. Also, in gnome-control-center, I've set all my fonts to Vera-8. When I log into X I launch gnome-control-center and double-click the fonts panel, which starts whatever processes that make most of my apps respect the fonts. All my GTK2 apps are fine. Some of my GTK1 fonts are fine: for example, gbuffy and blackbook use the font I've set in gtk-theme-switch. But SOME GTK1.2 apps like xmms, xsane, gfontsel do not: they appear to be using Helvetica. How can I set the font for these (apparently circa Gnome 1.4) apps? And why aren't they respecting gtk-theme-switch?
