On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 15:41 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote: > On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 20:29:48 +0100 > "Paul Smith" <phhs80@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Some progress, but still far from perfect. Please, see the attached screen-shot. > > Another question to ask: Is there a gnome-settings-daemon process > running in the background? All GTK apps want to talk to it to get > the font settings established by gnome font setting app (either > gnome-appearance-properties in recent versions of gnome or > gnome-font-properties in older versions). > > I have no idea if KDE starts up the gnome-settings-daemon for the > benefit of KDE users running GTK apps, so if you are running KDE, > that may be the problem. To set fonts, themes etc. for some apps, including Firefox specifically, you have to use the Gnome procedure (e.g. gnome-control-center) even when running KDE. poc