[GNC] font size

John Ralls jralls at ceridwen.us
Sun Oct 7 10:45:26 EDT 2018



> On Oct 7, 2018, at 3:21 AM, Frederick Bambrough <mlist at ypical.myzen.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> In message <59F2E470-39FF-429D-91E7-3DBDFCD2CBA2 at gmail.com>
>     Red Ochre <redochre77 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> I have the same question as Alex Garcia, below. I am a Mac user of
>> GnuCash and the font size has suddenly increased and is too big since
>> updating to V3.3 I looked at the GnuCash wiki re GTK3 but I’m not
>> technical enough to understand. I tried to enter "gtk-query-settings
>> theme” into the terminal but it came back with there is no such command.
>> I looks like I might need to install a tool GTK3 and then learn how to
>> run it. I hope I am mistaken here - all I want to do is to put the font
>> size back to where it was before the upgrade to V3.3. Surely that
>> shouldn’t be that hard.
>> 
>> Thanks for any advice.
> [snip]
> 
> Just been through this myself and had good help on IRC so...
> 
> In TextEdit type in;
> 
> * {
>  font: 12px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
> }
> 
> Save the file in
> 
> ~/Library/Application Support/GnuCash/config/gtk-3.0
> 
> Name it;
> 
> gtk.css
> 
> You may find that placing the pointer over the 'Reconciled' column in an
> account causes the tooltip to flicker rapidly. This can be fixed by
> creating a new file in the same place named 'settings.ini'.
> 
> This file should contain;
> 
> [Settings]
> gtk-cursor-theme-size=16
> 
> Hope this is helpful

One important note about using TextEdit: It creates RTF files by default and those don’t work. Before saving the file select Format>Make Plain Text (if it says Make Rich Text then you’re already set).

Regards,
John Ralls



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