Panel/menu font won't change

[Brian Pack]

On Monday 07 August 2006 09:43, marc wrote:
> Brian Pack said...
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> > On Sunday 06 August 2006 11:13, Brian Pack wrote:
> > > On Sunday 06 August 2006 02:59, marc wrote:
> > > > Brian Pack said...
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> > > > > On Friday 04 August 2006 15:37, Brian Pack wrote:
> > > > > > I'm trying to change the panel and menu font by going through
> > > > > > System->Preferences->Font and changing the Application font. I'm
> > > > > > not getting any response. Works fine as root GNOME session, but
> > > > > > not as =
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> > my
> >
> > > > > > regular user session.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I started with a Kubuntu installation, then added Xubuntu and
> > > > > > final=
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> > ly
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> > > > > > Ubuntu. Is there a conflict with Kubuntu or Xubuntu settings I
> > > > > > haven't found yet?
> > > > >
> > > > > Additional: Created a new user and logged into a GNOME session.
> > > > > Works as=3D20 intended. It has to be something with KDE that's
> > > > > causing a conflict. No=3D20 noticeable KDE processes running that I
> > > > > can immedia=
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> > tely
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> > > > > suspect as the=3D20 culprit.
> > > >
> > > > Just as a matter of interest: do you use Krusader?
> > >
> > > No I don't.
> > >
> > > Starting with KDM, I'm going to purge out stuff I'm not using until I
> > > find the culprit. (in the intrests of time, though, I'm not about to
> > > check aft=
> >
> > er
> >
> > > each package. So it'll be in large enough chunks to still keep the K
> > > apps=
> >
> >  I
> >
> > > regularly use.)
> >
> > It wasn't a app after all. it was detrius from gtk2-engines-gtk-qt. It
> > put = a=20
> > gtk2rc (I think that was the name) file that locked the font setting
> > in=20 place. Delete that, log out and back in, and I've got things
> > working as the= y=20
> > should.
>
> It's a shame that you can't remember the name of the file, because I
> have seen this problem and would like to test your proposed fix.
>
> I have found;
>
>  ~/.gtkrc-2.0
>
> is this the file you mean?

I believe that's the one, yes. If it mentions KDE and a font setting, that's 
definitely the cause of all my recent headaches.

> There's clearly a bug in the package gtk2-engines-gtk-qt. Sometimes it
> doesn't "take" the change in GTK font setting (to "Use another font")
> and, in any case, it isn't always applying the specified font, even
> after the above setting "takes".

I had nothing but trouble with gtk2-engines-gtk-qt. When running 
Firefox, .xsession-errors would fill up with bogus error reports. Apps would 
not run in WINE without having to run in *all* workspaces. The 'Run Command' 
item in Xfce would just blink at me when I selected it

After I removed the package, nearly every problem I had getting apps to run 
properly disappeared..
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