I've just installed Debian unstable, and I'm having a problem with font configuration.

I'm running Blackbox from GDM and every time I log in my default GTK2 fonts are small and uglified. After starting up gnome-control-center and clicking on "Font", as the font dialog opens my fonts revert to the delightful wonderful antialiased fonts that I prefer, and the settings appear fine; but the next time I log off and log back on, they are ugly until I run gnome-control-center again.

GTK1 fonts have been configured with gtk-theme-select and they remain fine and dandy; my .gtkrc sets the user-font and nothing else, and .gtkrc.mine is empty.

The same problem occurs as root, where I have identical fonts set. It also occurs whether or not I use GDM or KDM, which I also tried. Is there some easy way to tell GNOME to "refresh" my GTK font settings at logon, or is there something more basic I'm doing wrong?

Thanks in advance,
Marshall Quander
mquander at gmail dot com

Did you try making the changes from within Gnome, then saving settings upon logging off? Perhaps that would keep the settings for the next time you use Blackbox.

Actually I guess there's a "gnome-settings-daemon" that maintains these things that wasn't running by default. Starting it on login restores font parameters.

I'm not actually a Debian user (any more), I now use slackware 10.
I've got a similar problem.
I've got GNOME installed but I don't use it or GDM.
I use icewm as a window manager and all my gtk settings get reset everytime I reset X.
Anyone got any ideas on this?

The only way I know to make the icons work is by loading a gnome config program, or an XFCE config program, at which instant it all springs back to life...