tip - for KDE users.

[Rex Dieter]

S Beam wrote:
> just a nice thing to know - 
> 
> Firefox uses GTK to draw its menu and toolbar, as of course do Gnome 
> apps like Gimp and Gaim... This means when you use KDE Control Center 
> to set your fonts to a nice pleasing just-right font, it has no effect 
> on the toolbars and menus in the GTK apps. In my case they looked too 
> big and goofy next to the pleasingly rigid uniformity of my KDE apps. 
> Depending on your level of perfectionism this may drive you nuts. The 
> solution (after many many dead ends) was to create a file ~/.gtkrc-2.0 
> as follows:
> 
> $ cat ~/.gtkrc-2.0
> gtk-font-name="Sans 8"
> 
> thats it! Adjust the font to taste. No messing around with FF settings 
> userChrome.css or xfontsel or anything else is needed.

$ yum install gtk-qt-engine
Gives you a nice KDE Control Center module for setting this (and GTK 
theme) as well.

Be warned that the "Qt" GTK theme is a bit buggy, so I'd recommend you 
avoid using that.

-- Rex