Re: Gtk patch version 2, part 1

[Jan D.]

onsdagen den 18 december 2002 kl 02.08 skrev Miles Bader:

> "Jan D." <address@hidden> writes:
> > > Hopefully a future version of emacs-gtk will allow overriding some of
> > > the horrid GTK defaults...  I'd like, at least:  (1) menu font
> >
> > For 1) you can create a file ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and put into it something like:
> >
> > style "menubar"
> > {
> >   font = "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--12-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"
> > }
> > widget_class "*GtkMenu*" style "menubar"
>
> I tried this, and it doesn't seem to work -- there's no error message,
> but no change in the menubar font either.  Here's the exact .gtkrc-2.0
> file I tried (as I mentioned in a previous message, I know it's
> _reading_ the file, because syntax errors _do_ result in error messages):
>
>    style "menubar" { font = "-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-
> normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1" }
>    widget_class "*GtkMenu*" style "menubar"
>
> [minus the indentation, actually; I also tried variants like
> `font = "Helvetica 10"', but none of them worked either]
>
> Any ideas?

Well, I am currently out of ideas, because what you have is exactly what
I have (but size 14 instead of 10), and it works here.  Are you running
Gnome 2?  I am not.  I told you I wasn't good at these files :-)

I will read up on this and see what I can find.

        Jan D.