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KDE installation and GTK apps

mghaught

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Thursday, February 16th 2006, 10:00pm

KDE installation and GTK apps

I have just switched from Gnome to KDE after much encouragement from one of my linux buddies. I will also say that I am relatively new to linux.

After a day of configuration I have my KDE setup good in all but a few places. Several of my apps have terribly large fonts. I have realized that all these apps are built on top of gtk2. One of my friends has suggested that the work around is to manually launch the gnome-settings-daemon to 'fix' the fonts. Is there a better way around this?

BTW, switching apps is not an option. One of these applications is Eclipse which there isn't another substitute. The other is Firefox and OpenOffice. While I realize there are 'KDE' versions of these, I need to use both of these due to my business.

I appreciate in advance for any help you can offer.

Cheers,
Marty

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Tuesday, February 21st 2006, 12:16am

You might try GTK-Qt. It's basically a GTK theme engine that lets you set your GTK apps follow the theme and fonts used by KDE.

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Monday, March 6th 2006, 9:12am

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Originally posted by AdaHacker
You might try GTK-Qt. It's basically a GTK theme engine that lets you set your GTK apps follow the theme and fonts used by KDE.
Does it set font dpi also or it only changes font size ? I'm using it right now but I have a feeling that gtk applications use 96dpi - it could be just my imagination but I thought I will ask if gtk-qt engine will also apply my KDE's 98 x 98 dpi to gtk applications ?

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Tuesday, March 7th 2006, 12:48pm

I think this problem related to X-Server font settings.
Try to play with values in /etc/X11/fs/config:

default-point-size = 120
default-resolutions = 75,75,100,100

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "Dragonstorm" (Mar 7th 2006, 12:49pm)