On Mon, 7 Aug 2017, E. Liddell wrote:

> On Sun, 6 Aug 2017 18:33:21 -0400 (EDT)
> Felmon Davis <davisf@...> wrote:
>
>> if I could only find where the magic is for GTK config files. I do
>> have
>>
>> .gtkrc-2.0.kde4
>> .gtkrc-2.0.kde-kde4
>> .config/gtk-3.0
>>
>> if I only know what recipes to cook with.
>
> For GTK2, look for a "gtk-font-name" line somewhere, or experiment
> with adding one (frex, I have gtk-font-name="Times New Roman, 12").

for some reason your emails always get trapped as spam (by gmail) so I 
often overlook them!

> I ended up writing my own bare-bones theme for GTK3 to force a
> specific font and colour scheme.  Of course, the library shifted out from
> under it and it now requires maintenance (which I have yet to get around
> to because I use very few GTK3 applications).

I'm not sure I only have a GTK configuration problem since tiny fonts 
and icons affect 'kicker' and various submenus and some KDE apps, e.g. 
Kate.

I'll play with gtk-font-name, and the others.

this is turning out being one of my trickiest installs.

-- 
Felmon Davis

Someday we'll look back on this moment and plow into a parked car.
                 -- Evan Davis