ICQ

Ted Gould wrote:
| On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 20:31, Lynn David Newton wrote:
|
|>Does anyone know how to change the font used for
|>viewing and typing?
|
|
| I believe that it is using the GNOME application font. For me, the
| easiest way to change that is go to Preferences->Font and that will
| adjust it. Ofcourse, this effects all GTK+ 2.0 applications also.
|
| If you'd like to have a little more fun the GConf key for this is
| /desktop/gnome/interface/font_name. You can edit that with gconf-editor
| or you can use gconftool-2. So to get the font name it would be:
|
| [ted@davinci ted]$ gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/interface/font_name
| Bitstream Vera Sans 10
| [ted@davinci ted]$
|
| And then to set it:
|
| [ted@davinci ted]$ gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/interface/font_name
| --type=string "Bitstream Vera Sans 10"
| [ted@davinci ted]$
|
| I hope that helps. It won't be as helpful if your not using a GTK+ 2.0
| version of GAIM (I don't remember when they switched versions).

If you are using a new version of GAIM (that is GTK2.0) and you are not
using GNOME as your desktop (Ted's assesment above is perfect if you are
~ using GNOME as your desktop).

Simply create a .gtkrc-2.0 file in your home directory (if it doesnt
already exist) and add a line similar to the following:

gtk-font-name = "Nimbus Sans 12"

Save the file and restart your gnome2 applications. They should have
the new font attributes.

- -Derek