[GNC] Location of gtk css file on MacOS

Fri Sep 11 23:12:40 EDT 2020

All (John, Adrien and David),

John wins the lottery on this question with his sharp eye, noticing that 

> /Users/[user]/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config/gtk-3.0/gtk-3.0.css

should be named 

/Users/[user]/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

Changes to this file, now that it is correctly named, show up in Gnucash. Thank you to all of you who spent time thinking about this.

Will

On 2020 Sep 11, at 09-11 21:38:37, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:

Will,

Assuming that $HOME/.gtk-3.0.css, $HOME/.gtk-3.0/gtk.css, and $HOME/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css don't exist and that you haven't overridden the definition of XDG_CONFIG_DIRS in Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/gnucash/environment I think that the only files that Gtk would look at are $HOME/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/gtk-3.0.css and $HOME/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

Note that your attempt to use that last path isn't right because you named the file gtk-3.0.css.

Regards,
John Ralls

> On Sep 11, 2020, at 7:29 PM, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
> 
> Will,
> 
> No, macOS since 10.11 won't let a program from one app bundle look at anything in another one. That's why the old Update Finance Quote applet stopped working.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
>> On Sep 11, 2020, at 2:50 PM, will at theprescotts.com wrote:
>> 
>> John,
>> 
>> I'm just getting back to investigating this. I have tried making changes to both of those two files and I don't see any change when I open Gnucash. I have done a search for gtk-3.0.css. Most of the ones it finds are in the Gnucash applications themselves. I have a bunch of old Gnucash apps on my machine. Could they be causing problems.
>> 
>> /Users/[user]/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/gtk-3.0.css
>> /Users/[user]/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config/gtk-3.0/gtk-3.0.css
>> /Applications/Gnucash//Gnucash-3.10/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/share/doc/gnucash/gtk-3.0.css
>> /Applications/Gnucash//Gnucash-3.4/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/share/doc/gnucash/gtk-3.0.css
>> /Applications/Gnucash//Gnucash-3.0-1/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/share/doc/gnucash/gtk-3.0.css
>> /Applications/Gnucash//Gnucash-4.1.4/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/share/doc/gnucash/gtk-3.0.css
>> /Applications/Gnucash//Gnucash-4.0/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/share/doc/gnucash/gtk-3.0.css
>> /Applications/Gnucash//Gnucash-4.1/Gnucash.app/Contents/Resources/share/doc/gnucash/gtk-3.0.css
>> 
>> Will
>> 
>> 
>> On 2020 Sep 1, at 09-01 22:10:44, John Ralls <jralls at ceridwen.us> wrote:
>> 
>> As long as you haven't messed with anything the two documented locations are:
>> ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/gtk-3.0.css
>> ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css
>> 
>> The second is because GnuCash.app/Contents/Resources/etc/gnucash/environment sets XDG_CONFIG_HOME to $HOME/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config.
>> 
>> Documentation aside, older versions of Gtk would look in other places for backwards compatibility, like ~/.config/gtk-3.0 and ~/.gtk-3.0, and ~/.themes/Adwaita. You might to a global search for files named gtk.css to make sure that there isn't a leftover somewhere overriding the one you want to use.
>> 
>> Regards,
>> John Ralls
>> 
>> 
>>> On Sep 1, 2020, at 7:33 PM, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Will,
>>> 
>>> The other file ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config/gtk-3.0.css
>>> that you said also existed only exists as an empty folder on my system ???
>>> 
>>> Cheers David H.
>>> 
>>> On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 11:28, will at theprescotts.com <will at theprescotts.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> David,
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks for the response. It is curious. But I have tried that numerous
>>>> times with no effect.
>>>> 
>>>> Will
>>>> 
>>>> On 2020 Sep 1, at 09-01 18:50:05, David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Hi Will,
>>>> 
>>>> I'm running 4.1 on the latest Big Sur Public Beta - it's picking up the
>>>> first one (/Users/davidh/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/gtk-3.0.css)
>>>> which only has the following in it ...
>>>> 
>>>> * {
>>>> font-size: 12px;
>>>> }
>>>> 
>>>> If I change the 12px to 18 px and restart GnuCash I can see the difference
>>>> right away.
>>>> 
>>>> Cheers David H.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> On Wed, 2 Sep 2020 at 08:58, will at theprescotts.com <mailto:
>>>> will at theprescotts.com> <will at theprescotts.com <mailto:
>>>> will at theprescotts.com>> wrote:
>>>> I am running Gnucash 4.1.4 on MacOS 10.15.6 and I am looking for the
>>>> location of the gtk.css file that is controlling the display. I have seen
>>>> discussion of it here and have looked at the wiki but I am still having
>>>> trouble.
>>>> 
>>>> I have files:
>>>> ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/gtk-3.0.css
>>>> ~/Library/Application Support/Gnucash/config/gtk-3.0.css
>>>> 
>>>> However, it doesn't look like Gnucash is reading or paying attention to
>>>> either. If I run Gnucash in the gtk debugger with:
>>>> 
>>>> GTK_DEBUG=interactive
>>>> /Applications/Gnucash/Gnucash-4.1.4/Gnucash.app/Contents/MacOS/Gnucash
>>>> 
>>>> It does appear to read the first one, but not when I run Gnucash normally
>>>> (i.e. by double clicking on the Gnucash.app or from the command line).
>>>> 
>>>> Any suggestions?
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Will
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