On Tue, 2002-07-30 at 19:49, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="David Fitch">
> 
> > > In gnomecc, under the GTK+ theme section.
> > 
> > that's set the title bars of windows but not the menus and other bits.
> 
> Er... The only way to change that in sawfish (assuming you're using it) is
> under the sawfish section in gnomecc... Hmm.

yes sawfish

> > It appears to have only affected things by the window manager.  An example
> > is the gnome-terminals, the top title bar is now a nice smaller font but
> > the menubar (with "File Edit Settings Help") still has large fonts
> > (probably about 14 point I'd guess and I want probably 10).
> 
> Okay, run 'gnomecc' and go into the Desktop > Theme Selector capplet.
> There's a frame in there called "User Font". Check "Use custom font" and hit
> the button below to choose a font.

that was what I was doing at first but it appears to have no
effect (or next to no effect) which I why I assumed I must
be doing it wrong and posted here.

> If you're using a wacky GTK+ theme, it may be setting the font. If that's
> the case (most theme authors are kind enough to not do that), you'll have to
> remove that bit from the gtkrc file. I doubt this is the problem however.

it's the default theme although since then I've tried a couple
of others but all have this same enormous font.

> GNOME 2 is far more sensible in this regard - there's a lot less clutter and
> mess. Hooray.

is that in woody though?  (and I don't want to download large
amounts which is why I installed from cd)

maybe I'll try tomorrow adding a new user and see what fonts they
get in case it's remanents of some old gnome setting in my home
dir.  Although the fonts were ok under RH 7.3 (same 1.4 gnome version
too I think, same machine, same home dir etc etc).

I tried grepping for font names under ~/.gnome and manually changing
the sizes down a point or two but again not much or no effect.
Where should all the fonts to use be stored?

Dave.

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