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I just scrapped my Mandrake 9.2 and 2.4 kernel for the new 10.0 Community w/ the 2.6 kernel and KDE 3.2. My pain right now is fonts. I'm running at 1920x1200 resolution on my Dell Inspiron 8600. I've spent a good deal of time tweaking my XF86Config-4 to be where it is right now, and for some reason the fonts are just huge. So I went into KDE and was sure to reduce every possible font, including "all fonts" down to something small (6). That fixed the problem in many places, including the start menu and taskbar. But, many, many applications still have plain HUGE fonts in the File,Edit,etc. dropdown menus and other places. Firefox, GAIM, and Thunderird, for example, are huge. I went to the Font settings for each of those apps and set them as small as I could but w/ no luck.
Do I maybe need to add some lines to my XF86Config-4 that point to where the fonts are on my machine? I've seen that before. Any other reason why certain fonts would just be gigantic? I'll attach my XF86Config below in case anyone has any ideas or sees other flaws in it. I installed the nVidia driver using the kernel source and nVidia installer, so that's what everything is set to.
# File generated by XFdrake.
# **********************************************************************
# Refer to the XF86Config man page for details about the format of
# this file.
# **********************************************************************
Section "Files"
# Multiple FontPath entries are allowed (they are concatenated together)
# By default, Mandrake 6.0 and later now use a font server independent of
# the X server to render fonts.
FontPath "unix/:-1"
EndSection
Section "ServerFlags"
#DontZap # disable <Crtl><Alt><BS> (server abort)
#DontZoom # disable <Crtl><Alt><KP_+>/<KP_-> (resolution switching)
AllowMouseOpenFail # allows the server to start up even if the mouse doesn't work
EndSection
Section "Module"
Load "dbe" # Double-Buffering Extension
Load "v4l" # Video for Linux
Load "extmod"
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx" # 3D layer
#Load "GLcore"
#Load "dri"
EndSection
Distribution: Slackware, Windows, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, Mac OS X
Posts: 5,296
Rep:
no problem, it just makes keeping up w/the thread a pain. you'll get more good answers from one thread, than three. as for your problem there are 2 places in the kde control center concerning fonts, one is under desktop > appearance, the other is under appearances and themes > fonts, and gives you a few more options. other than those options you'll probably have to set fonts for each application.
good luck.
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