Re: RH7J and Gnome start menu and configuration vs. 800x600 screen

[Shimpei Yamashita <shimpei@example.com>]

On Mon, Feb 05, 2001 at 03:18:54PM +0900, SN_Diamond wrote:
> Again, anyone who can, please help.  Some of the machines where I installed
> Red Hat 7J have tiny little 800x600 LCD screens.  When I open menus from
> Gnome's start button, several of the menus roll of the bottom and I can't
> move the cursor to some of the entries.  Furthermore, even some of the Gnome
> configuration tools open up windows that don't fit on the screen, so the
> "OK" and "Cancel" buttons are off the screen at the bottom and the
> upper-right X button for closing is off the screen at the upper right.
>
> In the Gnome settings tool, I set the default font to fixed (mnkaname) size
> 11, but Gnome itself didn't even respect my wish.  It still uses its own
> font.

I remember having this problem before, although everything fits fine on my
800x600 display now with Kondara 2000. Try playing with your .gtkrc or the
system default gtkrc. The one that comes with Kondara 2000 looks something
like this:

# $(datadir)/gtkrc.ja
#
# This file is needed for the Japanese users.
# The fonts are changed from the original gtkrc.
# And fontset is specified.
#
# Yukihiro Nakai<Nakai@example.com>
#

style "GnomeScores_CurrentPlayer_style"
{
  fg[NORMAL] = {1.0, 0.0, 0.0}
}

style "GnomeScores_Logo_style"
{
  fontset = "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
  fg[NORMAL] = {0.0, 0.0, 1.0}
}

style "GnomeAbout_DrawingArea_style"
{
  bg[NORMAL] = {1.0, 1.0, 1.0}
}

style "GnomeAbout_Title_style"
{
  fontset = "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
}

style "GnomeAbout_Copyright_style"
{
  fontset = "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
}

style "GnomeAbout_Author_style"
{
  fontset = "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
}

style "GnomeAbout_Names_style"
{
  fontset = "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
}

style "GnomeAbout_Comments_style"
{
  fontset = "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
}

style "GnomeHRef_Label_style"
{
  fg[NORMAL] = { 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 }
  fg[PRELIGHT] = { 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 }
  fg[INSENSITIVE] = { 0.5, 0.5, 1.0 }
  fg[ACTIVE] = { 1.0, 0.0, 0.0 }
}

style "GnomeGuru_PageTitle_style" 
{
  fontset = "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"
}

[...]



> (By the way, what is that Gnome footprint called?  I hate calling it "start"
> but didn't know what other word to use to footprint this discussion.)

Um, I dunno, but "Bigfoot" would be pretty appropriate....

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Shimpei Yamashita                               http://www.shimpei.org/