KDE fonts in Firefox/Thunderbird
Submitted by arbus on Thu, 09/28/2006 - 13:25.
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GTK apps like Firefox, Thunderbird, Gaim, GIMP etc. can use the same styles and fonts as other KDE applications if gtk2-engines-gtk-qt is installed. However, SimplyMEPIS 6.0 doesnt seem to show up "GTK Styles and Fonts" control in System Settings menu. Deleting $HOME/.local/share/applications/kcmgtk-xdg.desktop restores "GTK Styles and Fonts" in System Settings->Appearance & Themes menu.
See http://www.mepis.org/node/10921#comment-41171 for details.
Hope this helps .. arbus
Thanks for the tip
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Ah - thank you! That's really helpful. Although the GTK menu option appeared in my Settings when I removed ~/.local/share/applications/kcmgtk-xdg.desktop, when I clicked on it nothing got loaded. However, running: kcmshell kcmgtk-xdg
did let me set the GTK fonts to my KDE defaults and Synaptic, Firefox, etc look much better now.