[wdm] How to change fonts for wdmLogin?

[Markus Dolze]

Alexey Voinov wrote:
> bsdfan at nurfuerspam.de wrote
> 
>>I just upgraded from 1.27 to 1.28 (on FreeBSD 5.4). Now the fonts shown in
>>wdmLogin look ugly. I also updated Xorg to 6.8.2 and WindowMaker to 0.91.0,
>>so this might not be wdm's fault.
>>
>>The question is: How do I change to fonts used in wdmLogin. Looking at the
>>source I found it uses WMBoldSystemFontOfSize(). I tried changing fonts in
>>the system's WMGLOBAL file, but it seems to have no effect.
> 
> There is a way to do it. Placement of WMGLOBAL depends on options passed
> to ./configure script. If you compiled with --with-fakehome=<dir>, then
> you should do everything in that dir, otherwise <dir> is home of root
> user.  (/root/ on my system).
> You do:
> 
> # mkdir <dir>/GNUstep/Defaults
> # vim <dir>/GNUstep/Defaults/WMGLOBAL
> 
> That should do the trick. :)
> 
Yes, that worked. Thank you very much.

For the archive: With the current FreeBSD port the path is
/var/run/wdm/GNUstep/Defaults/WMGLOBAL.

Regards
Markus