Re: [gentoo-user] GTK fonts uglified after update

[Shaw Vrana]

On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:54:16AM -0500, Ben Kelly wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 November 2006 12:13 am, Shaw Vrana wrote:
> > I just performed an emerge -Du world and found that the fonts in the few
> > gtk apps that I use (gaim and wireshark) have now become quite ugly.  I
> > followed the wiki at http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts to
> > beautify a while back and the changes I made there have remained intact
> > through the update.
>
> Are you running KDE with the gtk-qt theme engine?  If so, I had a similar
> problem with fonts no longer being anti-aliased in gaim.  I found the
> solution on this page:
>
> http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=9714
>
> Basically you need to change your General font setting in the control center.
> Once you make a change (any change) you can change it back to how you had it
> originally.  Once you restart your gtk applications the fonts should be
> aliased again.  There is no explanation for why this works, but it resolved
> the issue for me.

Wow, you're right, that fixed it!  But I'm using the Crystal SVG theme.
I wonder what causes this nastiness?  I'll hunt around for an appropriate
KDE mailing list and report it there.  

Thank you!
Shaw
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