[GNC] help increasing size of font in GnuCash?

[John Ralls]

If you read the wiki carefully you'll realize that configuration files are looked for in USER_CONFIG_HOME, not USER_DATA_HOME. On Linux and macOS Gtk (and most other modern Linux desktop programs) use the XDG spec (https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html) and the default for XDG_CONFIG_HOME is $HOME/.config. 

For macOS Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/gnucash/environment set XDG_CONFIG_HOME to $HOME/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config, so you can put a gtk.css or setup.ini there. 

Gtk looks through a set of hardwired locations as well as XDG_CONFIG_HOME, most of which are for backward compatibility: ~/.gtk-3.0.css, ~/.gtk-3.0/gtk.css, and ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css, ~/.gtk-3.0/setting.ini, ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini.

Regards,
John Ralls


> On Aug 17, 2020, at 11:56 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> Peter,
> 
> If you read the Wiki carefully, you'll see that the `~/.local/share/gtk-3.0` location is for all GTK apps, not just GnuCash. The GTK theme may conflict and your customization may not override the theme in some cases. (note, the Wiki also notes that `gtk-3.0.css` will override `gtk.css`)
> 
> The proper location to customize the GnuCash UI via CSS is:
>  ~/Library/Application Support/GnuCash
> 
> Regards,
> Adrien
> 
> On 8/16/20 1:47 AM, Peter West wrote:
>>> On 16 Aug 2020, at 1:29 pm, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
>> …
>>> The file should be named:
>>> 
>>>  gtk-3.0.css
>> That’s why I couldn’t get mine to work in either location. I was using gtk.css.
>> I can say that the location ~/.local/share/gtk-3.0/gtk-3.0.css does NOT work, in spite of the wiki.
>>> 
>>> The location should be:
>>> 
>>>  ~/Library/Application Support/GnuCash
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