This section describes how to customize specific components of the desktop individually.
The themes do not affect the
desktop background. Therefore to modify the desktop background to complement
your desktop, you must customize the desktop background separately using the Desktop Background
preference tool. To start the Desktop Background
preference tool, click Launch, then choose Preferences -> Desktop Preferences -> Display -> Desktop Background.
The size of the icons
that are displayed on the desktop background is controlled by the File Management
preference tool. To change the size of the icons,
perform the following steps:
Click Launch, then choose Preferences -> Desktop Preferences -> Folders.
Select the Views tabbed section.
In the Icon View Defaults group, select the zoom level that you require in the Default zoom level drop-down list.
This section describes how to customize the font settings for the desktop and frequently-used applications.
If you have difficulty with the default font type and font size that is used on the desktop and desktop background, you can customize the font settings to suit your needs.
You can specify individual font settings for the following desktop components and applications:
Entire desktop excluding the desktop background
Desktop background only
Terminal
Text editor
File manager
The Font
preference tool allows you to specify the default fonts for the desktop.
To start the Font
preference tool, click Launch, then choose Preferences -> Desktop Preferences -> Display -> Fonts. The Font Preferences dialog contains the following options:
Click on this button to select a default font to use for the text that is displayed on the desktop, including the text displayed on the windows and dialogs associated with GNOME-compliant applications and panel applications.
If you use the Theme
preference tool
to select a theme and you click on the Apply Font button,
the font that is associated with the theme overrides the font that you select
using the Font
preference tool.
Click on this button to select a font to use for the text that is displayed on the desktop background only.
Click on this button to select a font to use for the text that is displayed in titlebars of your windows.
Click on this button
to select a font to use in the Terminal
application.
To specify how to render fonts on the desktop, select one of the following options:
Monochrome
Best shapes
Best contrast
Subpixel smoothing
If you use large fonts, you may need to change the size of panes in applications that use panes such as, the file manager and the Help browser.
For more information about the Font
preference
tool, see the Java Desktop System Release 3 User
Guide.
By default, the gedit
text editor application uses the default font settings
that are specified in the Font
preference tool
to display the text in the gedit
window components
such as the menubar, toolbar, and application dialogs. However, you can customize
the font that gedit
uses to display the text editor
window contents. To customize the font settings for the gedit
window contents, perform the following steps:
In the gedit
application, choose Edit -> Preferences.
In the Preferences dialog, select the Fonts & Colors category.
Perform one of the following steps:
To use the default application font that is specified in the Font
preference tool, select the Use default theme
font option.
To specify a font, deselect the Use default theme font option, then click on the Font used by the editor button to display the font selector dialog.
By default, the file manager
uses the default font settings that are specified in the Font
preference tool to display the text in the file manager window.
However, you can further customize the font that is used in the file manager
view pane. To customize the font that is used in the view pane, click on the View menu in the file manager, then select one of the following
menu items:
To enlarge the text, select Zoom In.
To reduce the text, select Zoom Out.
To reset the text to the default font setting, select Normal Size.