well, i've been looking at this for awhile now and i cannot find any way to change font sizes for menus and such for a gnome application while i'm running it under tde. there are gnome system defaults someplace, but i'd just as soon not install all of gnome just to be able to change the size of the letters in an application. is there an equivalent to kcontrol for the gtk side of things?
On 2019-06-20 16:51:51 dep wrote:
well, i've been looking at this for awhile now and i cannot find any way to change font sizes for menus and such for a gnome application while i'm running it under tde. there are gnome system defaults someplace, but i'd just as soon not install all of gnome just to be able to change the size of the letters in an application. is there an equivalent to kcontrol for the gtk side of things?
There are a number of Gnome tools that can affect this, depending on which version of Gnome the application is written for: GTK3+: gnome-tweak-tool gnome-control-center gnome-shell-extension-prefs
GTK2(?) gconf-editor
I think what you need is either gconf-editor or gnome-tweak-tool, which are likely not installed.
Leslie
On 06/21/2019 12:17 AM, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
GTK2(?) gconf-editor
Not needed. Just a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 with:
style "user-font" { font_name="Tahoma 8" } widget_class "*" style "user-font"
That will set the default font for all widgets (menu, toolbar, etc..) to "Tahoma 8". You can fine-tune what each font is applied to.
I tried pretty much everything that was suggested. No joy. (Adding to the fun is no easy way I know of to tell whether a particular application is GTK2 or GTK3, making it possible to break some things while not fixing others.)
Anyway, after the various gnome and gtk tweakers failed to give me what I desired, I happened upon, in Tmenu > Settings > Settings > KDE System Settings, which is apparently a KDE-heaven-knows-what-version configurator, something called "GNOME Application Style (GTK)" and there I was able to change the typeface and size and all became wonderful. (Could change themes, too, if I wanted.) I'd love to give a better description of the configurator, but it has no "About" or "Help" or anything. Anyway, it works. (In top is shows up as systemsettings5, so I suppose it is a KDE5 configurator. I have no idea why I have it.)
On 2019-06-21 16:28:52 David C. Rankin wrote:
On 06/21/2019 12:17 AM, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
GTK2(?) gconf-editor
Not needed. Just a ~/.gtkrc-2.0 with:
style "user-font" { font_name="Tahoma 8" } widget_class "*" style "user-font"
That will set the default font for all widgets (menu, toolbar, etc..) to "Tahoma 8". You can fine-tune what each font is applied to.
Some folks are more comfortable using a GUI to do their settings. :-)
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