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The New Hotness

  • Setting KDE Menu Font Size in XFCE

    Just set up an Xubuntu system with a few KDE apps, all of which had minuscule menu fonts. The simple solution is described there and my version of ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals looks like this:

    [General]
desktopFont=Bitstream Vera Sans,12,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
fixed=Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,10,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
font=Bitstream Vera Sans,12,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
menuFont=Bitstream Vera Sans,12,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
shadeSortColumn=true
smallestReadableFont=Bitstream Vera Sans,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
taskbarFont=Bitstream Vera Sans,10,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
toolBarFont=Bitstream Vera Sans,10,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0
widgetStyle=qtcurve

    And then It Just Works… the alternative being to drag in the whole KDE configuration tweakage infrastructure, which I’m trying to avoid.