Changes between Version 102 and Version 103 of Using Pidgin

Timestamp:

Apr 11, 2008, 9:01:01 AM (16 years ago)

Author:

resiak

Comment:

Add information on changing your font in Gnome.

Using Pidgin

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 === How do I change the font Pidgin uses?  The background color? ===
-The font preference in Pidgin applies only for the formatting of outgoing messages on those protocols which support said formatting.  The display fonts used by the rest of Pidgin are those specified by GTK+, the toolkit we use to create the user interface.  To change this font, you need to edit your `~/.gtkrc-2.0` file.  On Windows, see [wiki:"Using Pidgin#WhatisagtkrcfileandwherecanIfindit" this FAQ entry] for the location of the gtkrc file.  If that file does not exist, simply create it.
+The font preference in Pidgin applies only for the formatting of outgoing messages on those protocols which support said formatting.  The display fonts used by the rest of Pidgin are those specified by GTK+, the toolkit we use to create the user interface.  If you're using Gnome, you can change these in System ⇒ Preferences ⇒ Appearance ⇒ Fonts; the font used for conversations is the ''document'' font, while the rest of Pidgin uses the ''application'' font.
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+If you're not running Gnome and want to change the fonts used, you need to edit your `~/.gtkrc-2.0` file.  On Windows, see [wiki:"Using Pidgin#WhatisagtkrcfileandwherecanIfindit" this FAQ entry] for the location of the gtkrc file.  If that file does not exist, simply create it.
 
 As an example, you can put this into `.gtkrc-2.0` to change the font size for all GTK+ applications: