Re: emacs menu font in GTK-2 and GTK-3

[Paul Eggert]

Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
> A system call trace of emacs startup shows that with GTK-3, the file
> ~/.emacs.d/gtkrc is not even read; instead, the file
> ~/.config/pango/pangorc seems to be the only user-specific GTK startup
> file that is read.

That's odd.  On my host (Fedora 21) Emacs also looks at:

~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

and some other files.  I expect gtk.css is what you want to fiddle with.  Please 
see 
<http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/GTK-resources.html> 
for a brief intro.  CSS styling can be a real zoo, I'm afraid.  You might want 
to take a gander at:

http://superuser.com/questions/597076/gtk-3-menu-configuration-for-emacs

It'd be nice to have a concise summary of your workaround (whatever it turns out 
to be) in the Emacs manual.