On 20 May 2010 00:36, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 05/19/2010 11:11 AM, Pedro Ribeiro wrote: >> On 19 May 2010 15:07, Pedro Ribeiro <pedrib@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Hi everybody, >>> >>> I purging my desktop of unneeded apps and one of the things I don't >>> need is a display manager (*dm). >>> Currently I have gdm installed. However, when I login through one of >>> the tty's and use startx to start my session manager (openbox in my >>> case), my fontconfig user settings do not get applied. >>> >>> I've tried using FC_DEBUG=1024 to see what files are loaded and indeed >>> it says it loads ~/.fonts.conf, but it completely ignores my settings >>> (slight hinting, greyscale). >>> >>> Can anyone give me a hint on why they are only applied when I login through gdm? >>> >>> Regards, >>> Pedro > > You need gnome-settings-daemon running. > > behdad > >> Nevermind, I just realized what is wrong. Sorry for the spam. >> >> Regards, >> Pedro > Actually the problem was that I had .xsession and .xinitrc in my home and it confused X (have no idea why). Removing those files and starting my default session (openbox-session) works like a charm, and my ~/.fonts.conf and ~/.Xresources (which mirrors the first). I already got rid of gnome-settings-daemon since I do not have GNOME anymore. Regards, Pedro _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig