&Mike.McBride; &Mike.McBride.mail;
2003-09-22
3.2
KDE
KControl
fonts

## Fonts

This module is designed to allow you to easily select different fonts for different parts of the &kde; Desktop.

The panel consists of different font groups to give you a lot of flexibility in configuring your fonts:

- General: Used everywhere the other font groups don't apply

- Fixed width: Anywhere a non-proportional font is specified

- Toolbar: Font used in &kde; application toolbars

- Menu: Font used in &kde; application menus

- Window title: Font used in the window title

- Taskbar: Font used in the taskbar panel applet

- Desktop: Font used on the desktop to label icons

Each font has a corresponding Choose... button. By clicking on this button, a dialog box appears. You can use this dialog box to choose a new font, font style, size and character set. Then press OK.

An example of the font you have chosen will be displayed in the space between the font group name and the choose button.

When you are done, simply click OK, and all necessary components of &kde; will be restarted so your changes can take affect immediately.

The Adjust All Fonts... button allows you to quickly set properties for all the fonts selected above. A font selection dialog similar to the standard one will appear, but you will notice checkboxes that allow you to change the Font, Font style or Size independently of each other. You can choose any one, two, or three of these options, and they will be applied to all the font groups.

For example, if you have selected several different font faces above, and realize they are all a size too big (this often happens when you change screen resolution, for instance), you can apply a new font size to all the fonts, without affecting your customized font faces and styles.

### Anti-alias text

To use anti-aliasing, simply place a mark in the checkbox labeled Use anti-aliasing for fonts. This enables two more options.

Placing a mark in the checkbox will allow you to specify which range of fonts will not be anti-aliased. This range is specified with the two combo boxes on the same line.

You can also choose the method that &kde; uses to create an anti-alias look to your fonts. If you are not familiar with the individual methods, you should leave this option alone.

The ability to use anti-aliased fonts and icons requires that you have support in both X and the &Qt; toolkit, that you have suitable fonts installed, and that you are using the built-in font serving capabilities of the X server. If you still are having problems, please contact the appropriate &kde; mailing list, or check the FAQ.