Openbox & GTK Fonts

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I've been kind of switching between KDE, GNOME and Openbox for the last few months and something that I had previously not noticed has started to annoy me. If I use Firefox in Openbox, the font that I had selected with gtk-chtheme is used for the application font, but within Firefox itself, I notice that some fonts appear larger than others, but only in Openbox. I poked around a bit and if I run gnome-font-properties, it seems to correct this, but that seems like a sloppy solution, as I don't run gnome-settings-daemon (which corrects everything). Does anyone know of what I can add to my .gtkrc-2.0 file for font settings?

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I've been kind of switching between KDE, GNOME and Openbox for the last few months and something that I had previously not noticed has started to annoy me. If I use Firefox in Openbox, the font that I had selected with gtk-chtheme is used for the application font, but within Firefox itself, I notice that some fonts appear larger than others, but only in Openbox. I poked around a bit and if I run gnome-font-properties, it seems to correct this, but that seems like a sloppy solution, as I don't run gnome-settings-daemon (which corrects everything). Does anyone know of what I can add to my .gtkrc-2.0 file for font settings?

I think this is a firefox issue. Normally, apps either pick up on the font defined in .gtkrc-2.0, or they get told what font to use by gnome-settings-daemon. Firefox works great with gnome-settings-daemon, but doesn't do what it should do with the .gtkrc-2.0. I think you might just have to live with it, unless you want to run a settings daemon.

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There are 2 methods of defining fonts in your .gtkrc-2.0, it's recommended to use both for backwards compatibility.

the first is like this ->

style "user-font"

{

font_name="Bitstream Vera Sans 10"

}

widget_class "*" style "user-font"

And again like this ->

gtk-font-name="Bitstream Vera Sans 10"

Firefox will only use the font described in the gtk-font-name section.

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...poked around a bit and if I run gnome-font-properties, it seems to correct this, but that seems like a sloppy solution, as I don't run gnome-settings-daemon (which corrects everything). Does anyone know of what I can add to my .gtkrc-2.0 file for font settings?

Do you run any xsettings manager at all? If not, how do you get your apps use the GTK theme you've selected?
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Do you run any xsettings manager at all? If not, how do you get your apps use the GTK theme you've selected?

Well I decided not to run the gnome-settings-daemon to set my GTK preferences because it also brings some other GNOME-related settings that I'm not interested in. The only settings file that I'm using is my .gtkrc-2.0 file:

gtk-icon-theme-name = "dlg-etiquette"
gtk-theme-name = "Clearlooks"

style "user-font"
{
		font_name = "Bitstream Vera Sans 8"
}

widget_class "*" style "user-font"

gtk-font-name = "Bitstream Vera Sans 8"

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