Xfree86 fonts are very small

White R4bbit · 10-12-2003, 10:36 AM

I configured properly my gtk2 applications, and even downloaded gtk-switch-theme in order to manage gtk1 themes and fonts, but I still can't change fonts in some applications like pt, XMMS or MPlayer menus... how can I set the right font type and dimension in this kind of applications? I'm getting blind...

megaspaz · 10-12-2003, 12:11 PM

for xmms, click the button on the top left corner of the main window, choose options > preferences. click the font tab and go to town. take note that i'm not sure how good this will work for you since i let xmms use the skin's fonts.

for mplayer, i don't think there's an option to change the fonts.

White R4bbit · 10-12-2003, 03:58 PM

That's not a specific problem of only XMMS and MPlayer, it's a problem common to a bunch of applications like XSane, GIMP, MLDonkey... I'm sure those fonts can be changed cause before re-configuring xserver-xfree86 there were giant characters, now there are very small characters..

But I still can't figure out how I cane effectively change these fonts' dimension

mossy · 10-12-2003, 04:12 PM

Ah - there may be something from one of the tabs in the X menu.
Go thru the menu and see if there is anything for the system default fonts etc.

White R4bbit · 10-13-2003, 05:35 PM

Well I guess it was not been caused by dpkg-reconfigure, but by the upgrade of XFree86 to version 4.3
Since I have the new version, I also have very small fonts, and I don't know how to change them

Which way do you all guys use to switch XMMS fonts? I mean the ones in the preferences menu, ora in the select file menu, not the ones in the skinned gui

White R4bbit · 10-15-2003, 04:28 PM

I guess they are just gtk1.2 fonts; I found this utility, but still can't get any good results... if I change gtk2 theme/fonts everything's ok, but if I try to change gtk1.x theme/fonts, nothing happens.

Any idea?