I'm confused about how preference settings in Gnome apps, specifically fonts in Gnucash2, work. I hope someone here can shed some light on the matter for me.
Mac OS 10.5.2 w/ all updates, Intel. Fink 0.28.1, unstable source. XQuartz 2.1.4 from Macosforge. Fink package versions included below. I'm running XQuartz's default window manager, not the Gnome desktop. When I start gnucash2, the fonts in the register windows are a bit smaller than I'd like. This preference is set in the Gnome control center, so I start that. (Gnucash is still running.) When the control center window comes up, most of the icons are missing; screen shot at <http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/cobbe/misc/gnome-1.png>. When I double-click on the Font icon, three things happen simultaneously: - the font dialog appears - the icons in the control center window appear (screen shot at <http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/cobbe/gnome-2.png>) - the fonts in Gnucash magically snap to the desired size. (Although the register window doesn't redraw itself, so I've got 12-point fonts in spaces for 9-point, or whatever, and I have to restart Gnucash.) All subsequent Gnome apps do get the defaults, until I kill and restart the X server. At that point, we're back to square one. It *looks* like Gnome knows what my preferred settings are, but it has to be poked into making those settings take effect. Does anyone know why this is happening? More practically, how can I set things up so that Gnome apps automatically get the preferences without me having to poke the system? If it helps, it's always the "screen resolution" and "screensaver" icons that are good when I first start the control center. Double-clicking on the screensaver icon is *not* sufficient to wake Gnome up, but double-clicking on the keyboard icon is. Thoughts and suggestions welcome! Richard [perdita:~]$ fink list -i gnome gtk gnucash control-center Information about 6509 packages read in 1 seconds. i control-center 2.12.3-2 The Gnome control center i control-center2-shlib 2.12.3-2 The Gnome control center i gnome-base 2.4.1-1 GNOME Removal convenience package i gnome-core 2.14.0-2 placeholder for gnome-core to allow upgrading over gnome 1.4 ... i gnome-desktop 2.14.0-2 The Gnome desktop i gnome-desktop4-shlibs 2.14.0-2 The Gnome desktop i gnome-icon-theme 2.16.0.1-1 The GNOME icon themes i gnome-keyring 0.4.9-1001 GNOME Key Ring i gnome-keyring-shlibs 0.4.9-1001 GNOME Key Ring i gnome-menus 2.18.0-1 Desktop Menu Specification menus i gnome-menus2-shlibs 2.18.0-1 Runtime library for the gnome-menus lib i gnome-mime-data 2.4.3-1 The GNOME MIME database i gnome-vfs2-unified 1:2.15.2-2 The GNOME virtual file-system libraries i gnome-vfs2-unified-sh 1:2.15.2-2 The GNOME virtual file-system libraries (i) gnucash2 2.2.4-101 Financial-accounting software (i) gnucash2-shlibs 2.2.4-101 Financial-accounting software i gtk+2 2.6.10-1004 The Gimp Toolkit i gtk+2-shlibs 2.6.10-1004 The Gimp Toolkit i gtkhtml3.8.15-shlibs 3.10.2-1002 HTML rendering/printing/editing engine i libgnome2 2.14.1-1004 The GNOME 2 library i libgnome2-shlibs 2.14.1-1004 The GNOME 2 library i libgnomecanvas2 2.14.0-1002 The GNOME 2 canvas library i libgnomecanvas2-shlib 2.14.0-1002 The GNOME 2 canvas library i libgnomeprint2.2-shli 2.12.1-1002 The GNOME printing library i libgnomeprintui2.2-sh 2.12.1-2 The GNOME printing library i libgnomeui2 2.14.1-3 The GNOME 2 UI Library i libgnomeui2-shlibs 2.14.1-3 The GNOME 2 UI Library i libgsf1.114-gnome-shl 1.14.1-2 GNOME Structured File library ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list Fink-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
