it’s an odd problem that i’ve had in the past that resolved itself over time(dunno how).
os: suse 10.2
gtkrad vers: 1.4 and 1.5
fonts for map coords and brush sizes in the 2d view are tiny and unreadable. any sort of font size change in the system has no effect on the 2d windows. i’ve searched google and came across a promising lead but it turned out not to help.
anyone have any suggestions?
lower screen-resolution 
or change font DPI in Windows (display properties/settings/advanced/general/DPI setting)
suse is linux
System changes in font settings or DPI do have an effect in GTKRadiant but only for all other fonts in the program, not for the 2D view text.
I’m running this LCD monitor at it’s native res of 1280x768. the text in the 2D view shows up as 4 pixels tall. By changing the resolution, the text remains the same height of 4 pixels and barely readable.
Here are 3 different resolutions, all exactly the same result(disregard the jpeg artifacts):
800x600
1024x768
1280x768
I’m beginning to think that maybe it’s a missing system font. Any idea which font is used by the 2D view? I have recently updated to suse 10.2. It was working properly in suse 10.1 but not initially. This same problem was evident in 10.1 at the beginning then seemed to go away at some point.
Maybe your installation of pango, freetype, or fontconfig has been screwed? You might try to reinstall these packages.
Here’s my guess at the problem.
From the screen shot I’m guessing you are using KDE as your desktop environment.
I believe GTK programs such as Gnome and Radiant need to use gconf for configuration.
I also believe that the version of KDE on SuSE 10.2 includes a GTK font setting on the Personal Settings (control panel) program.
Try adjusting the font sizes there.
Thanks for the tips guys. I don’t know why this happened. What I did was make a backup of the postscript fonts(thanks to Shaderman I made the connection of PS fonts to courier), delete them, reinstall from the backup -->works fine in 1.4 and 1.5 now. I think since the postscript fonts were installed before the msfonts, radiant was using the PS fonts.
I’m not sure how I managed to fix this in 10.1 since I didn’t use this procedure.
Any changes i made in any configuration applet, program or config file had no effect whatsoever.
@Cooper
I’ll keep this in mind if anything nasty comes up in the future. thanks.