Re: [RP] GTK font settings

[Jay Belanger]

I'm using the latest CVS ratpoison.
I've figured out that it isn't a ratpoison problem, though, sorry to
bother everybody.  
I started up another window manager (which I only use for
experimental purposes, I assure you), and my font setting were
ignored, whether I started my application from the terminal (rxvt) or
from an icon.
So, in fact, the only way I can get my fonts to be used is to both
  1) Start my application from a terminal and
  2) Use ratpoison
Odd.

Jay

P.S.
I noticed that even in ratpoison, my fonts wouldn't take effect with
xterm, only rxvt.  Finally, I noticed that my .ratpoisonrc file had 
alias myterm exec (export LANG=C; rxvt)
For some reason, the default LANG (en.US_UTF8 or something) was
interfering with the fonts.  I added
export LANG=C
to my bash init file, and now everything works as it should.
Still Odd.

Shawn Betts <address@hidden> writes:

> Jay Belanger <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Whenever I open a gtk-based application, such as gqview or mozilla,
>> from ratpoison (say, by binding "exec mozilla" to a key), my gtk
>> settings all seem to take effect, except for the fonts. 
>> If I open the application from a terminal, then my font setting work
>> just fine, even if I do "/bin/sh -c mozilla".  
>> I have the fonts set somewhat large, to help my old, myopic eyes read
>> the words, and the default fonts are a bit too small.
>> 
>> Is there some way of getting around this?
>
> Hi Jay,
>
> I've never seen this before! I changed my proportional font to 26pt
> and restarted mozilla. The font was nice and big. What version of
> ratpoison are you using? Do you have some environment variables that
> are different in the terminal? What terminal did you use?
>
> Shawn