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Changing fonts for GTK3 apps under KDE
I am running KUbuntu 20.04 and changed my default fonts there. The KDE system settings GUI has a button to configure GTK appearance, but this only allows changing the whole theme to another predefined ...
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GTK: limiting font choices on font selection dialogs?
As the end user, when I am presented with a font selection dialog (e.g. gvim > edit > select font...) it contains tons of variations that are but noise.
I do not care to see individual entries for "...
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Does XOrg have a notion of system-wide default font?
How and where can I change the default system font? For now it appears to be DejaVu 11, which looks horrible on my laptop.
I mean the font that is used in menus or labels. For example when I open ...
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Fonts look thinner in gtk application when not using gnome
The fonts in gtk applications such as emacs or gedit look thinner than in other applications when I use awesome as windows manager. Switching back to unity solve the problem.
For instance DejaVu Sans ...
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GTK+ 3 Menu configuration for Emacs
I don't like the GTK based emacs (Screenshot #1) and still prefer the tradition emacs (Screenshot #2), which I get from Ubuntu PPA.
The fundamental difference is that the tradition emacs looks ...
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GTK Fonts are too big
My GTK fonts are very big. When I want them to look good I have to set the size to 7. But I think this is very low and not the solution. I think it should be around 12. 7 sounds like a workaround to ...
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Is it possible to change the look and feel of remote X applications running under Xming?
I am running Eclipse remotely right now, in Xming on my Windows pc, through an ssh tunnel from my laptop running Ubuntu 11.10.
As seen below, it doesn't look that bad, but it seems that my ...
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Monaco font not antialiased in some GTK apps
I have a strange issue with the Monaco font on Ubuntu Karmic. I have recently installed the Monaco font just to see what the hype is all about.
The problem that I am facing now is that is not ...
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Linux/GTK+: Change preview text (permanently) in font selection dialog
Every time I want to change the font (in various applications), the default preview text is "abcdefghijk ABCDEFGHIJK", I can change it but the changes only live for the lifetime of the dialog. They're ...
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