thee's some daemon process that needs to be running in order to notify gtk to update fonts/themes/etc I just have no idea what it's called.
gnome-settings-daemon perhaps? Jeff On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 19:02 +0000, Jules Richardson wrote: > On Fri, 2004-09-03 at 20:30 +0200, Andre Klapper wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, den 01.09.2004, 19:30 +0000 schrieb Jules Richardson: > > > I've just got Evo 1.5.93 running on Slackware - the only issue being > > > that the font size for the message list and folder list is a little on > > > the large size. Is there anywhere I can change this within Evolution? (I > > > assume it's a global Gnome setting and for some reason Evo under > > > Slackware isn't picking the setting up) > > > > hi, > > > > if i understood you right, this could be bug 30590: > > <http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=30590>. > > feel free to add comments... :-) > > Ahh, yep that's the critter. I did a lot of digging around earlier, and > it seems to be affecting other distributions too, not just Slackware. > > right, long post... > > The common cause seems to be if people are running KDE rather than > Gnome, and for some reason *some* apps then (Evo and Mozilla, typically) > ignore the font changes as set by 'gnome-font-properties'. It doesn't > seem to affect everything, though. > > In my case I'm not running any desktop environment on the server as I > use Evolution against a remote display, so just have the DISPLAY > variable set. I did run KDE once directly on the server though (under > the same user as I run Evo as). > > I'm not sure if Evo thinks I'm not running gnome and so decides to > ignore all system preferences, or if there's some vital gnome process > which I should be running on the server before I launch Evo, or what. > > The more I delve into gnome and X font servers and the like the more I > realise what a complete bloody mess it is though. :-) Trying to work out > how everything ties together is a right nightmare. > > For reference, I've tried the following so far: > > Changing fonts via 'gnome-font-properties'. Changes stick there, but > Evo takes no notice of them. > Changing ~/.gconf/apps/evolution/mail/display/fonts/%gconf.xml - > again, Evo seems to ignore the settings > Running xfs with the same parameters as on a Redhat 9 system (where > Evo worked fine). Makes no difference. > Launching /usr/libexec/gnome-settings-daemon, as suggested by a few > archived usenet posts about this. That gives me: "You can only run one > xsettings manager at a time; exiting" which is interesting; even if I > shut everything down apart from the bare minimum console processes so > that there's nothing which could conceivably be an 'xsettings manager' I > still get that message. > > 'ps' output shows nothing running I wouldn't expect (as remembered when > I had this working on a RH9 system): > > camel-lock-helper > evolution-1.5 > /usr/libexec/gconfd-2 13 > /usr/libexec/bonobo-activation-server --ac-activate --ior-output-fd=17 > > The odd thing is that I had this running on a Redhat 9 server against a > remote display - i.e. no graphical processes running on the server > other than Evo - and it worked fine. So I'm tempted to believe that the > problem against a Slackware server isn't that there's something that > should be running and isn't -that it's more likely to be some > configuration that's screwed up somewhere. > > One thing I've just realised now is that I've never run a gnome desktop > up on this machine, only KDE. I wonder if the first time a full gnome > session runs it writes some config to disk somewhere which I'm missing > and on which Evo depends? I bet I ran gnome once or twice directly on > the old Redhat 9 server, even though it didn't have any gnome processes > constantly running on it... > > As for the bug details, I'll do some more poking around and then see if > I can leave summary comments there against that bug (assuming I don't > need to go through a ton of registration crud first!) > > cheers! > > Jules > > _______________________________________________ > evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution > -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.novell.com
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