Different fonts in LXDE/OpenBox

**kaemo** · December 1st, 2010

I recently started to use LXDE in my Ubuntu (previously I used Gnome; installed it using lubuntu-desktop meta-package). Had some issues but almost all of 'em are solved. Besides one - fonts. It seems that OpenBox is using different font rendering, or DPI maybe, that almost all GTK based apps (there are exception). It means that fonts in my Firefox look exactly the same way that they used to look in Gnome, but panel and window manager fonts, and as I mentioned, some apps have bigger or somehow differently rendered fonts. I use Arial font for all elements (beside console). Here are configs and screenshots:

part of $HOME/.config/openbox/lubuntu-rc.xml

Code:

    <font place="ActiveWindow">
      <name>Arial</name>
      <size>9</size>
      <!-- font size in points -->
      <weight>Bold</weight>
      <!-- 'bold' or 'normal' -->
      <slant>Normal</slant>
      <!-- 'italic' or 'normal' -->
    </font>
    <font place="InactiveWindow">
      <name>Arial</name>
      <size>9</size>
      <!-- font size in points -->
      <weight>Bold</weight>
      <!-- 'bold' or 'normal' -->
      <slant>Normal</slant>
      <!-- 'italic' or 'normal' -->
    </font>
    <font place="MenuHeader">
      <name>Arial</name>
      <size>9</size>
      <!-- font size in points -->
      <weight>Normal</weight>
      <!-- 'bold' or 'normal' -->
      <slant>Normal</slant>
      <!-- 'italic' or 'normal' -->
    </font>
    <font place="MenuItem">
      <name>Arial</name>
      <size>9</size>
      <!-- font size in points -->
      <weight>Normal</weight>
      <!-- 'bold' or 'normal' -->
      <slant>Normal</slant>
      <!-- 'italic' or 'normal' -->
    </font>
    <font place="OnScreenDisplay">
      <name>Arial</name>
      <size>9</size>
      <!-- font size in points -->
      <weight>Bold</weight>
      <!-- 'bold' or 'normal' -->
      <slant>Normal</slant>
      <!-- 'italic' or 'normal' -->
    </font>