[GNC] Settings for low-vision users?

[Fred]

Thanks for the tip. Yes, it is Windoze, either 10 or 11, not certain.

I'll pass this on to my wife to try.

Thanks again!

Fred

On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM David H <hellvee at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Fred,
>
> You don't say what OS and Gnucash version your wife's friend is using but
> I'm going to assume Windows and a recent version of GnuCash :-)
>
> Gnucash uses GTK3 - the following are links from the wiki that relate to
> updating GTK settings - if you check them out you'll see there's a bucket
> load of settings you can customise.
>
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/GTK3
> https://wiki.gnucash.org/wiki/Configuration_Locations#In_GTK_CONFIG_HOME
>
> If you go to the Help >> About menu on a recent version of Gnucash it will
> display 6 or so file locations - the paths are clickable.  Mine looks like
> the picture below :-
>
> If you click on the 2nd  link (GNC_USERCONFIG_DIR) on a Windows pc it
> should open your C:\Users\<<username>>\AppData\Roaming\GnuCash folder -
>
> I have a text file named "gtk-3.0.css" in that folder - make sure you
> don't add a ".txt" extension to the file.  It has the following entry in it
> to control the application wide font setting - you can set the font size up
> or down until you find a suitable setting.  If you change a setting you
> need to restart Gnucash to pick up the new settings.
>
> /* Application wide font setting */
> * {
>   font: 24px arial;
> }
>
> Hope this helps, Cheers David H.
>
> [image: image.png]
>
>
>
> On Sun, 9 Feb 2025 at 02:37, Fred <fred.fredex at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> My wife is trying to help a friend with low vision get started in GNUCash.
>> She asked if there is a way to enlarge everything in the GNUCash window
>> (she is moving from Quicken which, apparently does).
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Fred
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