Hoary, Ugly fonts in some apps...

[Andrea Giuliano]

Il giorno gio, 28/04/2005 alle 08.21 -0300, Heitor Moraes ha scritto:
> 2005/4/28, Andrea Giuliano <a.giuliano at iccu.sbn.it>:
> > Dear all,
> > 
> > since I upgraded to Hoary, I get very big and bad looking fonts for
> > menus in some applications. In particular, emacs and dvdrip. I had to
> > change faces for menu items in emacs, but this is not the right way, I
> > guess. Also, I couldn't do the same thing in dvdrip, at least so far.
> > 
> > So I suspect is a font issue. Is there a font related package I should
> > install? I think I have most of them already, and you can see below the
> > output of "dpkg --list | grep -i font".
> > 
> > Any hint?
> 
> Its a problem with GTK.
> 
> Type "locale" in console to get your language. Here I have "pt_BR.UTF-8".
> them create a link in /etc/gtk to a good font theme:
> 
> $ cd /etc/gtk/
> $ sudo ln -s gtkrc.iso-8859-15 gtkrc.pt_BR

Nope. It sounds like a good idea, but it didn't work for me.
I still get the same fonts. I eve tried with several locales and gtk
font theme.

Anyway thanks a lot, your suggestion is interesting by itself!

Best regards.

> 
> This exemple work here, in my system.
> You need to know you language first (us, pt, ru, pt_BR, ko, etc.).
> 
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