Thanks, but still no go. I did not even have a ~/.gtkrc in
either of my two NetBSD boxes, only one of which exhibits
the font problem. So I made one, trying both ways, with a
known font a la xslfonts, and with "fixed". But alas, no
change.

Another suggestion, please?

Michal Pasternak wrote:
> Gan Uesli Starling [Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 11:24:41AM -0500]:
> 
>>All these programs start but show tiny, one-pixel
>>fonts in the menues in both twm and icewm window
>>managers.
>>
>>1. Bluefish
>>2. QCad
>>3. Sodipodi
>>
>>This window manager gives an error window in the
>>same size one-pixel font.
> 
> 
> Try adding this in your ~/.gtkrc:
> 
> style "user-font"
> {
>   font="-adobe-helvetica-bold-r-normal-*-*-120-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1"
> }
> widget_class "*" style "user-font"
> 
> Of course, use a font, that works. xfontsel can help you. Or xlsfonts. If
> everything fails, use "fixed".
> 
> There's also a nice program called gtk-theme-switch, currently in pkgsrc-wip
> (http://pkgsrc-wip.sf.net)
> 


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