Hi Brad, nice collection of tricks, it works, thanks a lot !
Charles On mar, 2005-03-08 at 09:25 -0500, Brad Warkentin wrote: > On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 22:27 +0100, Charles Bueche wrote: > > Again me : if I use any gnome tool, it starts gnome-settings-daemon and > > font change to a better shape... > > Here is some info I kept from Lonnie Borntreger, which deal with font > tweaking if you use KDE as your window manager: > > ======================================================================= > > I use KDE also. Here is some cutting and pasting from some of my > previous emails on the topic to others. > > - make sure you have gnome control center installed > - install gconf-editor (kind of a "regedit" for gnome - allows you to > make changes without running gnome - since doing that may hijack your > desktop, screen saver, etc.) > - run gconf-editor and change the following > * desktop->gnome->background->draw_background (uncheck) > * apps->gnome_settings_daemon->start_screensaver (uncheck) > * apps->nautilus->preferences->show_desktop (uncheck) > * I also had to mess with some gnome settings like dots per > inch, mouse settings, keyboard repeat, etc. to prevent the gnome > daemon from changing my KDE settings. > - run gnome-font-properties to set your fonts (it will start the > settings daemon) > > Now the final step it to ensure that the gnome-settings-daemon starts up > automatically when you start up KDE (the KDE session manager will not do > this for you) - or the fonts will be incorrect anyway. Go to > ~/.kde/Autostart and create a file called gsd.desktop and put the lines > between the ==== into that file. > > ==== > [Desktop Entry] > Name=gnome-settings-daemon > Exec=gnome-settings-daemon > --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon > Terminal=false > Type=Application > ==== > NOTE: The Exec line is broken into two. The --oaf-activate option is a > continuation of the previous line. After the Exec=, it should look like: > gnome-settings-daemon --oaf-activate-iid=OAFIID:GNOME_SettingsDaemon > > ================================================================================== > > This works for me. It is a bit of a pita to remember which tool to run > (gnome-font-properties) when I want to tweak the fonts and would _love_ > if the KDE & Gnome folks would come up with a common standard for such > things so that the two desktops could share these types of settings. > > cheers, > bj _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
