Change Default Fonts

English Applications
1

The main thing that bugs me about openSUSE is the fonts.
Trivial I know!

Compare the fonts in this screenshot of YaST
http://users.telenet.be/photo-memories/img/YaST/yast-downgrade.png
to this screenshot of Synaptic
http://www.nongnu.org/synaptic/images/0.53-main.png

(neither image is mine)

Note how the YaST fonts are ‘skinnier’ and that the Synaptic fonts are slightly more proportional in height/width ratio.

How do I change these system wide fonts?

As a secondary question, does anyone know which fonts are in each of the screenshots above?

2

I found this searching google how to change the YaST font:
Random Thoughts: Change YaST2 Fonts

This is assuming of course if you are using the QT (KDE) version of YaST and not the GTK (GNOME) version of YaST

3

YaST uses Sans Serif 9pt by default in the QT version. Not sure about Synaptic

4

Thanks for that.

I’d always gone to the QT 4 Settings from the kickoff launcher.
I should have realised that you had to run qtconfig as root to get it to change for things like YaST!
I now have a nice looking YaST thanks to Droid Sans 9 :slight_smile:

Sans Serif 9 was a bad choice of font IMHO. I hope it is not the default choice in 11.4!

5

Glad you managed to change your font :slight_smile:
Running 11.4 M3 on my netbook and so far the YaST font looks the same I will fire up the qtconfig utility to confirm

6

I looked in qtconfig in 11.4 M3 and it is still Sans Serif 9 so it should still be the default choice in 11.4

7

I’d prefer:
kdesu systemsettings
over this Qt4 utility. Let’s you change the appearance of GtK+ applications, in case you have the Gtk+ YaST, that are run as root too.