Configuring Linux fonts (kde, OOo, gtk+, java, emacs and firefox)

(Mainly notes for myself). Since I switched over to Gentoo and am running Awesome for a window manager, I no longer have the Ubuntu fonts/cursors are consistent thing going on (widget themes are another story, and quite frankly, I'm not worried about getting them consistent). Here's some notes, (gentoo wiki used to have this somewhere but it's gone, here's the link), hopefully they are useful to others.

I'm using konsole, akregator, konversation, firefox, emacs, OOo, gimp and inkscape as my main apps. Also I've got a T61p thinkpad (1680x1050) and am normally using a 24 inch monitor (1920x1200) in combination with it. The defaults fonts were way too big for me.

KDE

I just used kcontrol "Appearance & Themes"->"Fonts", "Adjust All Fonts..." to bring the default size to 8.

GTK+

To get GTK+ fonts smaller I created a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file with

gtk-font-name="BitStreamVeraSans 8"

OOo

"Tools"->"Options". "OpenOffice.org"->"View".

Java

TBD

Emacs

See Emacs with Xft gentoo docs

I also wanted to change the default cursor. I installed xcursor-neutral and restarted X but it only worked for kde apps.

KDE

Just works

GTK+/Firefox

add

gtk-cursor-theme-name="Neutral_plus"

cd /usr/share/cursors/xorg-x11/
ln -s Neutral_Plus default

OOo

Works with default link

Java

TBD

Feel free to leave tips/hints in the comments

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