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#1 2009-10-16 15:07:20
- niblet
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Firefox/OpenOffice ignores GTK font settings
I know that this issue has been talked about a lot in the forums and I did do a forum search and go through the suggestions but none of them (with the exception of changing userChrome.css for firefox) has had any effect.
Basically, firefox and openoffice will both accept GTK theming with the exception of the fonts. I know that editing userChrome.css can "fix" the problem for firefox. I don't know whether that there is a similar fix for openoffice.
What I want to know is:
- Are there any system wide changes I can make to force both firefox and openoffice to obey GTK?
- In the absence of the above, is there a way to change OO GUI styles in a way similar to changing userChrome.css for firefox?
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#2 2010-01-13 14:05:33
- hellawaits
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Re: Firefox/OpenOffice ignores GTK font settings
don't know about oo, but i know that ff uses ~/.fonts.conf for font rendering, so i propose that you look up the usage of the file and feed it with the information required.
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#3 2010-01-13 14:49:54
- apollokk
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Re: Firefox/OpenOffice ignores GTK font settings
No, there isn't any problem there.
Firefox can't accept any font hinting than slight.
It's another unexplained problem.
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#4 2010-01-13 14:57:02
- flamelab
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Re: Firefox/OpenOffice ignores GTK font settings
Oo3 here (on KDE) doesn't follow the font hinting, it's simply awful, but FF does follow the font rules:
Compare FF and Oo3.
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#5 2010-01-13 15:00:43
- owain
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Re: Firefox/OpenOffice ignores GTK font settings
Oo3 here (on KDE) doesn't follow the font hinting, it's simply awful, but FF does follow the font rules:
Compare FF and Oo3.
This matches my situation, on Openbox.
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#6 2010-01-13 15:16:04
- apollokk
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Re: Firefox/OpenOffice ignores GTK font settings
Wait ... what theme are you using for the gtk apps?
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#7 2010-01-13 18:26:42
- hellawaits
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Re: Firefox/OpenOffice ignores GTK font settings
No, there isn't any problem there.
Firefox can't accept any font hinting than slight.
It's another unexplained problem.
you're right, my mistake.
i wanted to say that you'll have to edit /etc/fonts/conf.d/ meaning that you'll have to symlink the one or other config file from /etc/fonts/conf.avail/ there.
but if i change the ~/.fonts.conf, ff certainly changes his rendering behavior, but i'm afraid i cannot make it out what it's exactly changing 
Last edited by hellawaits (2010-01-13 18:31:37)
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