Accounts screen font size

[Tommy Trussell]

On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 12:33 AM, FireFly <fireflys_98 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Changing to a new variant of Linux, (mint) and for my preferences the account screen font is a bit large, any way to change that? I've managed to change the font size in the register to a smaller better font, but the account screen seems to refuse to change.
>
> - James Duerr

I haven't tried a recent version of mint. I believe it's based on
Debian, so it should be similar to any Debian-based distro. It may
have a few differences from the Ubuntu 12.04 system I'm in front of at
the moment, however.

I looked through the FAQ http://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/FAQ for font
suggestions, and there are a couple of tips ... HOWEVER nothing
exactly relating to this.

Here are a couple of ideas I've thought of (remember I'm just a user
and not very familiar with the gritty internals):

1) See if your distro uses gnome-control-center and try a couple of
the themes (if provided) to see if the fonts are more pleasing using a
different theme. (There are tools for finer control over the themes
and gnome, but many distros don't include them by default, and I'm not
sure what to recommend.)

2) There's another tip in the FAQ about using a ~/.gtkrc-2.0.gnucash
file to override the default settings in GnuCash, though the email
(and example file) is six years old. I just tried it, and it didn't do
anything on my system using the latest stable GnuCash, so I presume
the paths (or the syntax) may have changed for the current version.

Please report back to the list, especially if that leads somewhere
useful. I'm hoping someone with more technical knowledge can weigh in,
too.

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