[GNC] Changing fonts

[Richard Gaede]

To R Losey, Phyllis Bruce and all others who have responded, thank you. 
I have now cracked it as the result of your combined wisdom and input, 
which in this age of mis-, disinformation/distrust I found refereshingly 
supportive and constructive.
Thank yo all.


On 25-Oct-24 01:52, R Losey wrote:
> There probably IS a GTK file that is part of the standard configuration,
> but user configurations will override those settings. That is why you can
> safely create your own file and copy it to the user configuration area.
> You don't want to change the default GTK that is provided by GnuCash
> because subsequent installations will erase your change.
>
> Just as an aside, many operating systems  and applications have a two-tier
> or maybe thee-tier (and more are possible) configurations: They will first
> load a "default" configuration (one that comes with the app/OS). They will
> then load a user configuration, which will override the
> default configuration.  This is a two-tiered approach.  Some things also
> have a default config, a system config, and a user config.
>
> You don't have to replace the entire GTK file -- just the one line of text
> for your user configuration. It isn't coding to create a text file and
> copying/pasting the data into it.
>
> Best wishes!
>
>
> On Wed, Oct 23, 2024 at 8:14 PM Richard Gaede via gnucash-user <
> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>
>>      Hi,
>>
>> Thanks for your comments, however they do not resolve my problem. My
>> belief is that there used to be a gtk file as part of the standard
>> config, but the contents of that file are now part of the overall coding
>> of GNU cash. I can find the directory where I believe the gtk file
>> should reside, but I don't have such a file, and do not have the coding
>> skills or knowledge to create one. I have seen the online advice how to
>> edit gtk, and can manage that, but not without the file to start with.
>> I also do not understand the relationship between a gtk file and the
>> inbuilt coding vis a vis fonts, and how it will work. That will be an
>> act of faith.
>> I am in the classic situation like when your Internet connection goes
>> down, and the support person tells you where on the internet to go for
>> the fix.🙂
>>
>>
>> On 23-Oct-24 13:13, Phyllis Bruce wrote:
>>> Richard, if you go into Help/about, you can click on the _live_ link
>>> to the user config file.  Then copy the gtx-3.0.css file directly into
>>> it. Once you reboot, you should see a larger font in the program.
>>>
>>> Windows does not make this stuff easy for non-programmers like me.
>>> Hope this helps.
>>>
>>> po
>>>
>>>> On Oct 22, 2024, at 7:59 PM, R Losey<rlosey at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> As I read the help, the file doesn't exist until you create it; it
>>>> needs to
>>>> be put in the GNC_USERCONFIG_DIR as defined in the "About" menu
>>>> item.  I'm
>>>> currently on a Mac, and I'm certain that the "About" item is
>>>> somewhere else
>>>> on Windows.
>>>>
>>>> So, you need to create the file somewhere, and then copy it to
>>>> the configuration directory, restart GnuCash, and the changes should
>> take
>>>> effect.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Oct 22, 2024 at 7:30 PM Richard Gaede via gnucash-user <
>>>> gnucash-user at gnucash.org> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I am a longstanding Gnu Cash user, currently using V5.6 on 3 Win
>>>>> machines (2x11, 1x10). On my latest machine, which was a clean install,
>>>>> the size of the register font is causing me difficulties. I have
>>>>> succesfully changed fonts in reports, however cannot do so for the
>>>>> registers.
>>>>>
>>>>> I have followed the various recent comments about editing gtk-3.0.css,
>>>>> but cannot locate such a file on my system. There is no reference to it
>>>>> anywhere in GTK_USERCONFIG_DIR. The only place I have found anything
>>>>> like it is in the Program Files … …Gnu Cash\etc\gtk-3.0. The latter is
>> a
>>>>> directory containing settings.ini and im_multipress.conf. On
>>>>> examination, only settings.ini seems to have any relevance, and its
>>>>> contents look nothing like what is shown in the examples of
>> gtk-3.0.css.
>>>>> the situation is similar on my other Win 11 machine which has gone
>>>>> through several upgrades.
>>>>>
>>>>> What am I missing in order to change the register font to something
>>>>> other than an optometrist's delight?
>>>>>
>>>>> Any guidance greatly appreciated.
>>>>>
>>>>> P.S. My thanks to the developers and all others in making this
>> excellent
>>>>> software package work as well as it does.
>>>>>
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