Resolved: [PLUG] Small fonts vs. large fonts

Wed Dec 29 18:58:37 UTC 2004

On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 22:13 -0800, Evan Heidtmann wrote:
> I now have two distros installed on this machine: Debian and Gentoo. In
> Gentoo, the font used for menus and buttons in Evolution and Firefox
> (both gnome-ish applications) is nice and small. In Debian, the font is
> much larger. I would like Debian to also use this small font.
> 
> How can I find out what the font is in Gentoo? Once I know that, how can
> I instruct Debian's applications to use it?

I believe I've done it. I just installed a bunch of font packages. I
have a hunch it was msttcorefonts that did the trick.

Evan