OK, before any of you nuke this post and ask me to RTFM, I gotta say this is pretty weird for me, and I've read many font related posts in these fine forums, and nothing seems to match my problem.

I use only KDE ask my desktop environment, and almost all apps on it look very good. The problematic apps which has really ugly fonts are (at this moment) Mozilla, XChat and gFTP. As for Mozilla, I can tune the fonts almost to my liking. I used the term almost because I can only choose from a limited list of fonts under my preference.

A consistent problem for both these apps is the font used for the menus... both from the menubar and right-click menu. It's too small and a little blur. From my observation, these apps are most likely GTK based apps, unlike core KDE apps which are Qt based.

Could this possibly be the problem? And if you have faced such problems, can you please point out to me on the methods to fix them? I'm literally going blind over here.

Try runnning Gnome and head over to their version of preferences. It's in there somewhere I just can't remember where. I think from there you can configure the Gnome fonts.

Good Luck

Yeah ... for some silly reason it's under
the HTML viewer thing :)

Cheers,
Tink

P.S.: Gnome sucks ;)
/me runs for cover...

Hi rmartine,

I don't have Gnome installed, and most likely never will install it, no offense to Gnomies but I just don't like the way it looks. After all, it is about choice isn't it?

However, the strange thing that I gathered from your post is that I have to install Gnome just to adjust fonts for GTK-based apps in KDE (or other non-GTK based DEs out there)?

Are you positive about this?

uhhhh..... uhhhh.....

I hope not. Maybe someone else can jump in here cuz now I don't know.

Sorry

I hope not too rmartine... but thanks anyway

Anybody else dare to step up to this challenge?

Azmeen, what version of KDE are you running? I recently upgraded KDE from version 3.1.1 to 3.1.2. I found that after the upgrade, my GTK 1 apps had definite font problems. Not sure what is causing the problem although there is an outstanding bug that may be the cause. Check out: Bug #55617.

Rick

I'm almost 100% sure it's 3.1.1, but can't check now because I'm in Windowsland (at work).

Anyway, while googling, I found a related article on how to possibly fix this, although it's suse-specific...

I remembered your post Rick, so I'll share it with you:
http://sdb.suse.de/en/sdb/html/thall..._kcontrol.html

Hope this helps you, at least.

Well actually I'm using 3.1.0... and the article I linked is for 2.0... anyway I'm still looking for solutions and I'll post here if I find it.

The problem is that the apps that you are talking about are using the XFT2 extensions to XFree86 4.3.0, and they are only choosing from the crummy True Type fonts that come with Slackware 9.0 (no offense). Probably the easiest way to fix your problem is to install more True Type fonts for XFT2. I've posted the procedure a few times recently in this forum already, but it's pretty straightforward so I'll post it again here.

Make a directory under /usr/share/fonts for your True Type fonts. It doesn't matter what you name it, but TTF or truetype or something similar would make sense.

Copy the fonts you want to add into this directory. If you have Windows on the machine, just copy the True Type fonts from the Windows install into this directory.

Make the fonts world readable with
chmod +r *.ttf
or
chmod 644 *.ttf
in the directory.

Reboot your machine.

The new fonts should be available to the applications in question.