[GNC] Changing typeface using CSS (Windows 10)

[TERRENCE BRANSCOMBE]

Thanks, Adrian. 

You're right about the '#' being needed (at least on my system). Once I got the correct font spec working with the "*" I tried with and without the '#', and only with the '#' did the font change occur in gnucash. 

Cheers, 
Terry 


From: "Adrien Monteleone" <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> 
To: gnucash-user at lists.gnucash.org 
Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 10:11:51 PM 
Subject: Re: [GNC] Changing typeface using CSS (Windows 10) 

Terrence, 

You nearly had it right the first time. 

You need the "#" in front of the selector: 

"#gnc-id-main-window" 

The initial post you made left off the '#' sign at the beginning. If it 
is not there in your CSS file, that would be why it didn't work. That 
symbol indicates a CSS 'id' and without it, a 'named node'. If the node 
is not named as such, but does have that id, then your rule without the 
symbol will never work. 

Also, I'm surprised the wiki doesn't show this, but I'm fairly certain 
you have to quote font family names that have spaces in them. It is also 
good practice to provide a generic fallback, such as 'serif' or 
'sans-serif' etc. This way, if for some reason you didn't name the font 
just right, you should still see some sort of change. (assuming the 
generic is different than the default.) There is a way to find the 
proper name with a font viewer where you can see the font meta data. In 
this case, it might just be 'Calibri', though I'm not certain. 

Finally, play with other units such as 'px' or 'em'. Some work with GTK 
in some contexts and others do not. I haven't found the rhyme or reason 
yet. You might also find success with named sizes like 'medium', 'large' 
or 'x-large'. 

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Of note, the wiki explicitly states that the wild-card selector "*" does 
*not* work on Windows. 

If you still can't get it to work, try the settings.ini method. 

Regards, 
Adrien 

On 12/20/22 11:15 PM, TERRENCE BRANSCOMBE wrote: 
> Yeah, had precisely what you had in your screenshot. 
> 
> Here is what is now in my gtk-3.0.css file: 
> 
> /* Application wide font setting */ 
> * { 
> font: 18px Microsoft Consolas; 
> } 
> 
> No visible result, I'm afraid. 
> 
> Cheers, 
> Terry 
> 
> 
> From: "Glenn Fowler" <gfowler1 at outlook.com> 
> To: "TERRENCE BRANSCOMBE" <tlbranscombe at shaw.ca> 
> Cc: "GnuCash users group" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org> 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2022 6:18:54 PM 
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Changing typeface using CSS (Windows 10) 
> 
> It would be the "Roaming" folder. There is probably a syntax error. Just copy/paste the whole thing, save, and restart GnuCash. 
> 
> 
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2022 at 2:34 PM TERRENCE BRANSCOMBE < [ mailto:tlbranscombe at shaw.ca | tlbranscombe at shaw.ca ] > wrote: 
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks for the suggestion, Glenn. 
> 
> I tried this in both the "Roaming" and the "Local" versions of the gtk-3.0.css file; but, neither had any effect on the typeface I see. 
> 
> Also, I did see you used "24px" whereas I had "24pt" originally, so I went with your suggestion. 
> 
> Terry 
> 
> 
> From: "Glenn Fowler" < [ mailto:gfowler1 at outlook.com | gfowler1 at outlook.com ] > 
> To: "TERRENCE BRANSCOMBE" < [ mailto:tlbranscombe at shaw.ca | tlbranscombe at shaw.ca ] > 
> Cc: "gnucash-user" < [ mailto:gnucash-user at gnucash.org | gnucash-user at gnucash.org ] > 
> Sent: Monday, December 19, 2022 3:43:07 PM 
> Subject: Re: [GNC] Changing typeface using CSS (Windows 10) 
> 
> This should work: 
> 
> /* Application wide font setting */ 
> 
> * { 
> font : 24px Microsoft Calibri; 
> } 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2022 at 6:33 PM TERRENCE BRANSCOMBE < [ mailto:tlbranscombe at shaw.ca | tlbranscombe at shaw.ca ] > wrote: 
> 
>  
> Hello all, 
> 
> I've been a user for all of 2 weeks, so I apologize to everyone if this question/subject has been beaten to death in the past. My research online has not resulted in a fix, though, so I'd like to ask: has anyone running gnucash 4.12 or 4.13 on Windows 10 managed to change font families using CSS ? The documentation I've found on the subject suggests Windows users can change typefaces using CSS by editing the file GNC_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0.css by adding a section like this : 
> 
> /* Application wide font setting */ 
> gnc-id-main-window { 
> font-family: Microsoft Calibri; 
> font-size: 24pt; 
> } 
> 
> Following these directions I edited the file gtk-3.0.css in the folder C:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash with the setting shown above; but, upon restarting gnucash I see absolutely no font change whatsoever. For grins, I copied this file to the AppData\Local\GnuCash directory as well, and again restarted gnucash. Sadly, same non-result. 

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