At 2005-01-11T21:29:24+1300, Hugo Vincent wrote:
> Is it possible to change the default UI fonts of commercial
> proprietary applications
It depends, and it's usually application or toolkit specific. If the
application is using a modern configurable X toolkit, you can often
affect its font decisions by altering the global toolkit configuration.
Of course, how this is done depends on the toolkit.
For many of the applications that use older toolkits like
Athena/Motif/Xaw/etc., you can control a number of toolkit and
application settings using X resources. These are stored on a per-user
basis in either a ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources file, and on a global
basis either in application and toolkit specific files in your
distribution's app-defaults directory, or in a similar desktop
manager-specific directory such as. These resources need to be loaded
into the X server's resource database before they take effect; this can
be done in one of the login scripts, or on the fly, and is often handled
automatically by modern distributions.
For more on X resources, refer to the following man pages: xrdb(1x),
appres(1x), editres(1x), and listres(1x).
> like Acroread
For acroread, there should be an example Xresource file available on
your system (probably in an app-defaults directory) named AcroRead.
This may reveal the specific resource names you need to alter to change
the font size.
Cheers,
-mjg
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