Why GTK apps show smaller fonts under KDE? 

Newsgroups:  linux.debian.user
Date:        Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:23:21 -0400
> I notice that fonts are smaller for GTK applications (like pan) under KDE.
> E.g., for the same app -- pan, fonts are smaller in KDE than in my fluxbox.

There's a setting in Kmenu > Settings > Gnome Control Center.

After setting the font size you'll need to symlink /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon into ~/.kde/Autostart/

ln -s /usr/bin/gnome-settings-daemon ~/.kde/Autostart/

This will make sure your gnome settings are used when you start your KDE session. This includes gnome apps, mozilla, firebird, thunderbird…

Larry Geralds

Why GTK apps show smaller fonts under KDE? 

This is what I remebered how I fixed this problem. Gnome fonts where using a different dpi than kde was. Under gnome-font-properties there is a "details" or "advanced" button, I forget which. Press this and the new dialog will allow you to set the dpi for gnome fonts. I made sure this was the same as I was starting kde with and all was well.

Roy Pluschke

About extra features of less 

Newsgroups:  linux.debian.user
Date:        Thu, 08 Jul 2004 23:38:40 +0200
> I don't know how they did it, but when I was using RedHat9, I can
> use less to view directories, .gz files, and even .zip files, etc.
> I can't do it now in Debian.

Put the line

eval `lesspipe`

in your shell startup script (~/.profile).

Martin Dickopp

About extra features of less 

less /usr/share/doc/apache/README.Debian.gz
less /usr/share/xmms/Skins/Ultrafina.zip