enh: Configuration of font size

[Anders Bo Rasmussen]

It would be good if it was possible to change the font size used in the GUI.

[Selene ToyKeeper (toykeeper)]

This is already possible by using GTK configuration.

For example, in my $HOME/.gtkrc-2.0, I have:

style "user-font"
{
  font_name="Verdana 9"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

This sets everything to the same font, but you could do more specific customization too.

Is this sufficient for your needs?

[Anders Bo Rasmussen (i-launchpad2010-fuzz-dk)]

Yes. Thanks. Now I got the text so large I can see it. Sorry for my late reply the mail got into my spam-folder :(

Maybe this could be documented somewhere?
Is there someway to get a complete list of what is configurable this way?

[Selene ToyKeeper (toykeeper)]

I'm not very familiar with gtkrc commands, but a quick web search shows several examples of what one could do. Or, you could get more extensive examples by looking at the source of a GTK theme file.

Here is a tutorial:

  http://live.gnome.org/GnomeArt/Tutorials/GtkThemes

... and some reference documentation:

  http://library.gnome.org/devel/gtk/unstable/gtk-Resource-Files.html

... and a couple relatively simple examples of configuring a single app:

  http://xchatdata.net/Using/Gtkrc

This stuff is pretty much beyond the scope of TKDO, but I could include some pointers in a FAQ or other documentation if you think it would help. And if things really need to be easier, I could probably find a way to let the user configure the font directly from within the GUI. But in most cases, I would think the desktop configuration tools (GNOME control center, etc) should be sufficient. TKDO will simply follow the desktop theme settings chosen by the user.