Register Font Size in Version 3

[Dave H]

George,

GnuCash is now using GTK3 so it's all changed - here's some info posted by
Geert a few days OK which might help you do what you want...

Cheers Dave H.


On 2018-03-31 08:37, Geert Janssens wrote:
>
> A more general note. I have done some experimentation about what can be
done
> to tweak the gnucash user interface in the absence of the Theme selector
we
> used to have for gnucash 2.x (that was removed from gtk for gtk3, not
> something gnucash had any say in).
>
> It turns out that apart from really starting to customize css settings
one can
> also install custom themes. It's still a bit of manual work but it's much
less
> complicated than looking for individual settings. What follows can be
used as
> a basis to document this on the gui tweak wiki page.
>
> Note this custom theme will affect all gtk3 based applications on your
system!
>
> Short summary:
> 1. Download an appropriate gtk3 theme from www.gnome-look.org
> 2. Install the theme in a directory where gtk3 looks for themes
> 3. create or adjust a settings.ini file to tell gtk3 to use this theme
>
> Slightly longer with platform dependent remarks:
>
>
> 1. Go to the gnome-look.org website
> 2. Click the "Gtk3 Themes" link (*not* the Gtk2 one)
> 3. Select a theme you like
> Alternatively you can search for keywords (like "dark") in the top right
> corner and then filter on "Gtk3 Theme category"
> 4. If you have found a theme you like, download the proper file (in the
files
> section of the theme page).
>
> Note depending on your operating system you may not be able to open all
theme
> files. I have seen for example .deb archives which are specifically
targeted
> at the Debian linux distribution and derivates such as Ubuntu. While
Ubuntu
> and Debian users can install those themes via their package manager these
> themes are not useful for other platforms.
> Theme files ending with .zip, .tar.gz or tar.xz are likely installable on
all
> platforms, although you may have to find a proper application to extract
them.
> On Windows 7-Zip is a good candiate,  linux users can probably extract the
> files directly from their file manager.
>
> So...
> Let's take the theme "Eye-friendly Dark RBC" as an example (it's not the
best
> theme but it can serve as an example). The file to download is
"Eye-friendly-
> Dark-RBC.tar.gz"
>
> 5. Extract this file using an appropriate tool. This  should give you a
> directory named "Eye-friendly-Dark-RBC"
>
> 6. Move this directory to a location on your system that's parsed by gtk.
This
> is platform dependent:
> - Linux: $HOME/.local/share/themes/
> - OS X: Here I'm not sure. Possibly
>             $HOME/.local/share/themes/ (like on linux)
>       or  $HOME/Library/Application Support/themes/
>   I suspect the first unless one overrides the XDG_DATA_HOME environment
>   variable
> - Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\themes\
>
> 7. Next tell gtk to load this theme.
> Linux users can probably most easily do this by install the "Gnome Tweak
Tool"
> on their platform and select the new theme there.
>
> The manual method is this:
> Create a file named "settings.ini" in the appropriate location. Again this
> depends on your platform:
> - Linux: $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/
> - OS X: Again I'm not sure. Possibly
>             $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/ (like on linux)
>       or  $HOME/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config/gtk-3.0
>   I suspect the latter in this case because gnucash overrides the
>   XDG_CONFIG_HOME environment variable on OS X
> - Windows: %LOCALAPPDATA%\gtk-3.0\
>
> The contents of this file should be
>
> [Settings]
> gtk-theme-name=Eye-friendly-Dark-RBC
>
> And that's it. Note the name is the name of the directory as you put in
the
> themes directory.
>
> The next time you start gnucash it should pick up this theme.
>
> A few extra notes:
> * The default gtk3 theme is called "Adwaita"
> * On linux there's a second default theme called "Adwaita-dark" which
should
> also give you a dark themed gnucash. Unfortunately this doesn't work on
> Windows. I suppose it's not included or improperly configured there ? On
OS X
> I haven't tried this.
> * If you're adventurous you can probably also play with customized icon
themes
> which you find on the gnome-look.org website. These themes should be
installed
> in the icons directory next ot the themese directory. And to activate
them you
> can add gtk-icon-theme-name=<directory name> in settings.ini.
> * Another setting some of you will be interested in is
> gtk-font-name=<a font description>
> for example
> gtk-font-name=Abyssinica SIL Regular 10
> * More gtk settings one can override can be found here:
> https://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSettings.html
>
> Regards,
>
> Geert
>
>

On 5 April 2018 at 08:23, GEORGE HAMMOND <geh001 at icloud.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am using gnucash 3.0-1 on a 2011 iMac running OSX 10.13.4. I was
> previously using gnucash 2.6.7 on the same machine and OS .
> I Changed the font size in the register using the following code …
>
> style "font"
> {
>   font_name = "Sans 14"
> }
> widget_class "*" style "font"
> gtk-font-name = "Sans 14”
>
> And saved it to a file named .gtkrc-2.0.gnucash which was placed in my
> home directory. It worked fine in the previous version, but now does not
> work with version 3.0 of gnucash.
>
> This code and file name were from the gnu cash FAQ on the gnucash site.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
>
> GEORGE HAMMOND
> geh001 at icloud.com
>
>
>
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