Dear all,
I have a problem with default application fonts, and I can't seem to find a
solution in existing documentation.
This is the basic problem : in a whole lot of applications, for which the most
important are for me currently OpenOffice and Netscape 4.77, the fonts
for the displayed documents can be changed, but the fonts for the application
itself (menu's, dialogs, etc...) do not seem to be accessible.
If an application is well-written (like Opera e.g.), it should obey the resources
which can be set using xrdb (Opera obeys something like *defaultfont or *font,
I can't say which at the moment, but it works).
Netscape, e.g. seems to be influenced by the setting of the font path and uses
too large fonts for me (probably because 100dpi fonts come before 75dpi
fonts).
If I see that an application is influenced by the font path, how can I make it
choose another font for its default font, and how can I find out what is the
name of this default font ? I presume that I could do something with fonts.alias.
Any hints ?
Regards,
Jurgen Defurne
Btw. thanks for the information about X in a classroom environment. I'll be
sticking with Windows on the desktops for the moment, because it would
be too much work for me to change all PC's over to Linux. I should be
setting up a test environment with a couple of PC's to see what the
possibilities are to implement the requested features, before I can install
such an environment with a client.
