Changing KDE fonts without the KDE control center

Lord Estraven · 11-16-2009, 03:56 PM

I've run into a little problem in Slack 13.0: when running XFCE, changing the font in qtconfig fails to change fonts in KDE apps such as ktorrent and koffice. This is rather annoying because default KDE fonts are excessively large and blurry on my monitor. Is there any way to force KDE apps to obey qtconfig settings?

symatic · 11-17-2009, 03:59 AM

you need to create a .fonts.conf in your /home and i would also create one in your /root.

mine looks like this:

Code:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba" >
   <const>none</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle" >
   <const>hintfull</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font" >
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias" >
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

symatic · 11-18-2009, 05:40 PM

next time I'll pay closer attention to what your asking. I have noticed the same issues. It appears the setings will not stick when using qtconfig alone. Kde control center also over writes your qtconfig settings as well. Strange indeed!