How do we change fonts now

Alexander Larsson alexl at redhat.com
Fri Feb 18 07:38:24 UTC 2011


On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 23:03 +0000, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 17:56 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> > On 02/17/2011 04:31 PM, Bastien Nocera wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 14:55 -0500, Clyde E. Kunkel wrote:
> > >> Please, oh please, someone tell me how to change the fonts in gnome 3
> > >> now.  My old eyes, even with glasses and a magnifying glass are starting
> > >> to hurt.
> > >
> > > search for "Universal Access" (under system settings), and change the
> > > "text size".
> > >
> > 
> > My eyes are grateful.  Thanks.  How do we change the font style now?
> 
> Read the archives of this list, it's already been discussed.
> 
> >   I 
> > tried changing themes in the gconf-editor but the changes didn't take.
> 
> Try dconf-editor instead.

dconf-editor is a bit crashy for me at times, I usually use the
gsettings commandline app instead:

 gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface gtk-theme "clearlooks"

See gsettings help for other commands.

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