Re: [wmii] XWindows default fonts

What on Hell, Heaven or Earth makes you think wmii has *ANYTHING* to
do with this and that this is the relevant list to ask such questions?

uriel

On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Leslie Viljoen
<leslieviljoen_AT_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 8:39 PM, Suraj N. Kurapati <snk_AT_gna.org> wrote:
> > Leslie Viljoen wrote:
> > > I'd like to change is the big ugly font that all the XWindows
> > > menus use. the same font used in the login screen's session
> > > chooser menu
> >
> > Is the login screen produced by gdm (uses GTK+) or kdm (uses Qt) or
> > xdm (uses X)?
>
> I assume GDM, since that is the command that starts Xwindows.
> I am using Ubuntu 7.10.
>
>
> > > Firefox uses it in its menus and tabs.
> >
> > Firefox does not use X directly; it uses GTK+ instead.
> >
> > Make a file called .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory with the
> > following content:
> >
> > gtk-font-name = "Sans 11"
> >
> > Change the font value accordingly.
>
> I did exactly this, but it didn't change anything.
>
>
> > > Anyway, how do I change it (or at least make it smaller)?
> >
> > Make a file called .Xdefaults in your home directory with the
> > following content:
> >
> > ! see "font5" in /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
> > *font: -*-terminus-*-r-*-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-*
>
> I did that too: no change.
>
>
> > > I have been searching for "XWindows default fonts" in google for
> > > hours.
> >
> > Try "xdefaults".
>
> Ok, I will.
> Strangely, it seems like fonts are all magnified in wmii. If I make
> the gnome-term's
> font smaller in its menus, the text is really tiny when I log back into gnome.
>
>
Received on Sun Feb 24 2008 - 02:53:56 UTC