Re: [Fink-users] Gnome Application Font is Being Ignored

[Dave Vasilevsky]

On Jan 5, 2005, at 11:52 PM, Martin Fuhrer wrote:

Whenever I launch a GTK2 app, the application font for the menus, labels, buttons, etc. is rendered at a very small size (maybe 7 or 8 points), and seems to be using the Sans font. This occurs despite the fact that I have set the application font to Lucida Grande 10 in the Gnome Font Properties control panel. If I launch gnome-font-properties, then the font size in all open and subsequently opened GTK2 apps is correct. However, shouldn't my selected application font size be used in all GTK2 apps without having to launch Gnome Font Properties beforehand?

The gnome-settings-daemon has to be running for your Gnome settings to be available. Best bet is usually to launch it in your .xinitrc, then do something to make sure that it's fully loaded before your .xinitrc finishes. I used to use this in my .xinitrc, no idea if it still works:

[ -f /sw/bin/init.sh ] && . /sw/bin/init.sh
if type gnome-settings-daemon >& /dev/null ; then
        gnome-settings-daemon &
        until lsof -a -U -c gnome-set | grep orbit-$USER; do
                sleep 1
        done
        sleep 1
fi

Dave

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