OK -I'm trying

[Bob Stia]

On Thursday 25 December 2008 09:55:11 am Felix Miata wrote:
> On 2008/12/25 16:56 (GMT+0530) Kishore composed:
> > On Thursday 25 Dec 2008 4:31:30 pm Anne Wilson wrote:
> >> On Thursday 25 December 2008 00:05:25 Bob Stia wrote:
> >> > 2.Yast has tiny tiny fonts. (I am visually impaired) I was able to
> >> > increase font size in KDE and GTK to my satisfaction, but there is
> >> > nothing for QT.
> >>
> >> Not sure about that.  Have you increased the size of fonts in
> >> systemsettings > Appearance tab > Fonts?  If you've tried all that it
> >> may be an OpenSUSE- specific thing, since yast is their tool.
> >
> > As Nikos mentions, this is most likely because yast is run as root and it
> > uses the settings set for root user. You could run systemsettings as
> > root and adjust fonts in there which should hopefully adjust the fonts as
> > displayed in yast.
>
> I don't believe there is a tool in the KDE menus to adjust YaST2 fonts
> directly. You can adjust them indirectly by changing your X DPI. To change
> them in the individual YaST2 modules directly requires you use
> /usr/bin/qtconfig for SUSE 11.0 & 11.1. Older versions may require using
> /usr/lib/qt3/bin/qtconfig, which is still used by the YaST2 control center
> as of 11.1.
>
> The file that stores the qt4 qtconfig setting is
> $HOME/.config/Trolltech.conf. For qt3 I believe
> /usr/share/desktop-data/qtrc is the file in control until you run v3 of
> qtconfig to write a value to $HOME/.qt/qtrc. AFAICT, qt4 is hard-coded to
> use size 9 if there is no override in $HOME/.config/Trolltech.conf, unless
> maybe it's controlled by the overall SuSE theme.
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=389974

Hi Felix,

Just to let you know I have finally got Yast to display properly. A long 
convoluted process that seems so unnessary.

I tried all of the other suggestions to no avail Logging in as root and 
changing the kde and gtk fonts, running qtconfig which told me I had the 
chosen font size (but I did not) (sytemsettings just sat and ran and ran 
without output until i finally killed it) So I fell back to your suggestions.
Went to  $HOME/.config/Trolltech.conf and changed the font size. Some success. 
Now the main menu for Yast came up as readable with proper sized fonts. But 
the sub-menus still had the tiny fonts. 

So then I went to /usr/bin/qtconfig and changed font size there. Finally, I 
got a readable usable Yast. (Isn't that the same as running qtconfig in a 
terminal? evidently not)

Don't know why this should be so complicated and why (Yast should use a 
mixture of qt3 and qt4 - I think?) Anyway, it is working now and I am happy. 
Just can't imagine some newbie or someone like me being able to solve a 
problem like this without the help of someone like you. Thank You!!

Now, on to my other problems with KDE4.1. Maybe, with enough patience, I will 
get a functional 11.1, KDE4.1, to be as rock solid as my 10.3,KDE3.5. I guess  
we will see.

Bob S
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