Change the default GTK2 font?

Edwin Groothuis edwin at mavetju.org
Sun Sep 30 23:01:52 PDT 2007


On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 09:41:49AM +0400, Alexander Zhuravlev wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 03:26:30PM +1000, Edwin Groothuis wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > With the upgrade to xorg 7.3 suddenly the default font for GTK2x
> > applications has moved from a nice small one to a huge one which
> > gives me about 50% of the text I normally get on my screen.
> > 
> > XTerms themselves still have the right size.
> > 
> > How and where can I define which font GTK2x applications should use
> > as their default ones?
> 
> You can use something like this
> 
> % cat ~/.gtkrc-2.0
> 
> style "user-font" { 
>         font_name="Verdana 8" 
> } 
> 
> widget_class "*" style "user-font" 
> gtk-font-name="Verdana 8"

I used this one to overcome my initial problems,

> I find /usr/ports/x11/gtkchtheme works well for this.

And this one to setup a nice theme (industrial now)

Thanks for yours helps!

Edwin

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