GTK font sizes

[Ahmad Samir]

On 17 June 2015 at 10:02, Ed Greshko <ed.greshko at greshko.com> wrote:
> Is there anyway to control the font size of GTK+ applications in the new plasma5 environment?
>
> Use to be in system-settings within fonts you checked that GTK+ applications should use the KDE settings but that no longer exists.  Also, if you go into GNOME and use gnome-tweak-tool you can change the settings but they are not picked up going back to KDE.
>
> Would like to make my fonts in T-bird just a little be larger.
>

Edit ~/.gtkrc-2.0-kde4 and add this line:
gtk-font-name="dejavu sans 13"

to change the font to e.g. DejaVu Sans size 13pt; then restart
Thunderbird for the changes to take effect. Note that this only
affects the font size in the UI but not the messages content.

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Ahmad Samir