I start it from the command line:
 >$ gaim&

I click the "Options" button in the "Login" window.
Now The "Preferences" window is open. Mine has a window on the left side
with what I'll call a "preferences tree". The 5 Choices there are
General, Buddy List, Conversations, Sounds, & Away Messages. Under
Conversations there's "Font Options". The last thing in the "Font
Options" window is a checkbox with "Font Size for Text" and a scroll box
to change the setting. 3 is the default (I guess) but it'll go as high
as 7.

I don't know if it matters or not, but my version is the one that
shipped w/ RH8.0.

Hope this helps,
Bart

On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 07:31, Lynn David Newton wrote:
> 
> Ok, I see the gaim startup box with the Options button.
> I don't get that unless I first signoff because I'm set
> to auto-signon. I'd forgotten about that.
> 
> However, the Options button is nothing more than a link
> to the Preferences window which, as I've described,
> deals only with putting in HTML stuff.
> 
> There is also the ~/.gaimrc file. There is an block
> called options { ... } with these font-related items:
> 
> 	font_xfld { -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-*-160-*-*-m-*-iso8859-9 }
> 	font_face { courier }
> 	font_size { 3 }
> 
> I've tried horsing with all of those. It makes no
> difference.
> 
> -- 
> Lynn David Newton
> Phoenix, AZ
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