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ezzetabi

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Registered: 2006-08-27

Posts: 947

Settings fonts?

I recently reinstalled ArchLinux and instead of  XFCE I tried Fluxbox. It seems working pretty well, but I have messed fonts in every app!
The Firefox fonts too small, the terminal fonts ugly (and small).
What should I do to set fonts for GTK, QT and terminal apps?

I installed some fonts packages, but they seems have no effect.
E.g. xterm -fn terminus says that can't open terminus fonts.

Help!

dmartins

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Registered: 2006-09-23

Posts: 360

Re: Settings fonts?

IMO, the first thing to get set up is your display's DPI. There is a small guide on it here: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xor … Size.2FDPI
You can see your current DPI by running xdpyinfo | grep resolution (xdpyinfo is a part of the xorg-utils package)
I see that in the community repo there is gtk2_prefs and gtk2fontself, maybe one of these will be what you're looking for for your gtk apps.