{"id":37,"date":"2006-07-12T13:14:23","date_gmt":"2006-07-12T11:14:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hackenberger.at\/wordpress\/?page_id=37"},"modified":"2006-07-12T13:36:14","modified_gmt":"2006-07-12T11:36:14","slug":"how-to-change-the-fonts-of-x-applications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hackenberger.at\/blog\/linux-guides\/gentoo-guides\/how-to-change-the-fonts-of-x-applications\/","title":{"rendered":"Better X-application fonts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Instructions how to change the fonts of x-applications
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

Note: That doesn’t work for me anymore. Use the method below.<\/p>\n

Add a file calles .Xdefaults to your home directory and fill it as \t\t\t\tfollows:<\/p>\n

!
\n! ……………….FONT SPECIFICATIONS:
\n!
\n! …………………….DEFAULT:
\n*fontList:
\n-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal–10-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
\n! ……………….Figure window text font:
\nfigure*fontList:
\n-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal–10-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1
\n! ……………….Figure window exponent text font
\n-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal–10-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1<\/p>\n

! Checkboxes and Radiobuttons figure*XmToggleButton*fontList:
\n*-courier-medium-r-normal–10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1<\/p>\n

! Pushbuttons figure*XmPushButton*fontList:
\n*-times-medium-r-normal–10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1<\/p>\n

! Editable text figure*XmText*fontList:
\n*-symbol-medium-r-normal–10-*-*-*-*-*-*-*<\/p>\n

! Static text figure*XmLabel*fontList:
\n*-times-medium-r-normal–10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1<\/p>\n

! Preserve pulldown menu fonts (otherwise the pushbuttons in
\n! pulldown menus turn to the XmPushButton fontList setting)
\n! NOTE: this will also affect PopupMenu\tuicontrols.
\nfigure*XmRowColumn*fontList:
\n-*-helvetica-medium-r-normal–10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Have fun!<\/p>\n

<\/a> Instructions<\/strong><\/p>\n

emerge gtk-theme-switch<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is a small app to change GTK2 themes and the default font. Execute:<\/p>\n

switch2<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Then click on the + and change the default font to the same font you selected in the KDE Control Center.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instructions how to change the fonts of x-applications Note: That doesn’t work for me anymore. Use the method below. Add a file calles .Xdefaults to your home directory and fill it as follows: ! ! ……………….FONT SPECIFICATIONS: ! ! …………………….DEFAULT: *fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal–10-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 ! ……………….Figure window text font: figure*fontList: -*-helvetica-medium-r-normal–10-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1 ! ……………….Figure window exponent text font … Continue reading Better X-application fonts<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":35,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hackenberger.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hackenberger.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hackenberger.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hackenberger.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hackenberger.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hackenberger.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/37\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hackenberger.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hackenberger.at\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}