Newbie question about fonts
lazarus / 10-Designer

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skywatcher · 2007-04-06 10:01

A few days ago I installed Lazarus on Ubuntu Dapper, as well as on
Windows XP. At the same time I also installed SkyChart, which is built
with Lazarus. On Linux the font size on the menu bar and menus is
unacceptably large in both programs, but on Windows it is neat and
small.

I tried to adjust the font size on Linux with the System > Preferences
> Font utility, but although it makes a difference to the fonts of
just about every other application, it has no effect on the fonts in
Lazarus and SkyChart.

I also thought of rebuilding SkyChart on Lazarus, but I notice that
there is no facility for adjusting the font size on menu components
etc.

Any advice on this issue would be much appreciated.

Thanks

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felipemdc · 2007-04-06 12:05

What happens probably is that you changed the font for your Gtk 2
applications, but you are using lazarus and skychart with Gtk 1.

So you need to change the font for gtk 1 applications (I think someone
already talked about this on this forum). I don´t know exactly how to
do it, but google, and ubuntu forums should help.

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skywatcher · 2007-04-06 15:38

Thanks for the info, sekel. I'll follow it up.

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skywatcher · 2007-04-06 15:59

Hi sekel

You're a star! I found this advice on the Ubuntu forums after
following some links: "Just edit /etc/gtk/gtkrc.utf-8".

I changed the values given there from 120 to 80 and now the menu font
size on Lazarus and SkyChart is about the same size as on Windows XP.

Thanks again!