Re: KDE and default fonts

[Tony Nugent <tony linuxworks com au>]

On Tue Oct 29 2002 at 22:20, DT Wilterding wrote:

> Foolish to worry over cosmetics, but often it's the little things that
> intrigue me.
> 
> Using RH7.2 --
> 
> To change the fonts used in KDE we are directed to the Control Center, then
> to Look and Feel, then Fonts.  I do dearly despise the default fixed width
> font that is installed (Arioso 10) and wish to change it.  Toward that end I
> have read the Help files, performed all indicated actions many times (both as
> a regular user and as root) and have been completely unable to to effect a
> sustained change.

I'm no expert with fonts, but you did restart the font server (xfs), yes?

> Also, I've been unable to locate a font named arioso (or Arioso) else it
> would have been summarily deleted.

Bad thing to do, it could break other things.  The name is likely to
be a font name alias and not necessarily the name of the file that
contains that font.

> Can someone please help?
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Dan Wilterding

Cheers
Tony