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wire7ack

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Registered: 2019-05-18

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[SOLVED] Custom GTK font for specific apps

Hello all. I would like GTK application to use custom font GTK.
I searched the Internet, but found nothing useful.

Help please

Last edited by wire7ack (2019-08-28 19:35:23)

summerer

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From: Germany

Registered: 2014-01-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Custom GTK font for specific apps

Hi wire7ack,

you might want to have a look at this wiki article. It lists some GUI tools you can try out and directly below them, you can see basic configuration example where it looks like one can tweak the fonts aswell.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GT … tion_tools

wire7ack

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Re: [SOLVED] Custom GTK font for specific apps

Hi wire7ack,

you might want to have a look at this wiki article. It lists some GUI tools you can try out and directly below them, you can see basic configuration example where it looks like one can tweak the fonts aswell.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GT … tion_tools

Thanks for the answer. I understood how to change the theme for the application, but I did not understand how to change the font by this analogy

summerer

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Registered: 2014-01-25

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Re: [SOLVED] Custom GTK font for specific apps

If I read this correctly (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK#Configuration) changing the font for GTK3 apps can be done under

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

by changing the gtk-font-name

[Settings]
gtk-icon-theme-name = Adwaita
gtk-theme-name = Adwaita
gtk-font-name = DejaVu Sans 11

Have you tried this yet?

wire7ack

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Registered: 2019-05-18

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Re: [SOLVED] Custom GTK font for specific apps

If I read this correctly (https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK#Configuration) changing the font for GTK3 apps can be done under

$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

by changing the gtk-font-name

[Settings]
gtk-icon-theme-name = Adwaita
gtk-theme-name = Adwaita
gtk-font-name = DejaVu Sans 11

Have you tried this yet?

Thanks for answer, but I think I asked the wrong question. I wanted to change the font as you answered, but not for all GTK applications, but only for a certain.

sevendogs

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Re: [SOLVED] Custom GTK font for specific apps

Is this link helpful? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/327 … pplication

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seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Custom GTK font for specific apps

For gtk2 applications you can set GTK2_RC_FILES instead of messing up your global config path and firefox et al. will largely ignore your gtk config itfp.

=> It matters a lot, what "application" actually is.

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wire7ack

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Re: [SOLVED] Custom GTK font for specific apps

Thanks for the answers, but my problem remains unresolved

V1del

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Re: [SOLVED] Custom GTK font for specific apps

See seth's comment

=> It matters a lot, what "application" actually is.

Unless you are more transparent here all anyone can do is give you random suggestions, which specific applications do you want to do this with?

wire7ack

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Re: [SOLVED] Custom GTK font for specific apps

See seth's comment

=> It matters a lot, what "application" actually is.

Unless you are more transparent here all anyone can do is give you random suggestions, which specific applications do you want to do this with?

Oh, chromium

seth

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Re: [SOLVED] Custom GTK font for specific apps

Chromium is not a gtk application by any stretch - and things get more complicated: what part of chromium are you concerned about? Content, UI, the web inspector, …?
And because I sense this is gonna end up being an xy-problem: why exactly do you want to alter that font specific to chromium?

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latalante1

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Re: [SOLVED] Custom GTK font for specific apps

@sevendogs has provided a link in which there is a solution.
It is not optimal (immature) but effective.

mkdir -p ~/.config/cr1/gtk-3.0
printf "[Settings]\ngtk-font-name = DejaVu Sans 10\n" > ~/.config/cr1/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
ln -s ~/.config/chromium ~/.config/cr1
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config/cr1 chromium

wire7ack

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Re: [SOLVED] Custom GTK font for specific apps

@sevendogs has provided a link in which there is a solution.
It is not optimal (immature) but effective.

mkdir -p ~/.config/cr1/gtk-3.0
printf "[Settings]\ngtk-font-name = DejaVu Sans 10\n" > ~/.config/cr1/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
ln -s ~/.config/chromium ~/.config/cr1
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config/cr1 chromium

Thank you! You helped me a lot.
If you do not mind, I will ask you:
How to add this command to chromium.desktop. I tried so:

...
Exec=XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config/cr1 chromium

But the font remains the same

latalante1

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Re: [SOLVED] Custom GTK font for specific apps

Maybe something like that.

...
Exec=env XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config/cr1 /usr/bin/chromium

or

You can create a shell script (wrapper) and place it ~/bin (in the your PATH) and give execute permission (chmod).

#!/bin/sh
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config/cr1 /usr/bin/chromium "$@"

wire7ack

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Posts: 35

Re: [SOLVED] Custom GTK font for specific apps

Maybe something like that.

...
Exec=env XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config/cr1 /usr/bin/chromium

or

You can create a shell script (wrapper) and place it ~/bin (in the your PATH) and give execute permission (chmod).

#!/bin/sh
XDG_CONFIG_HOME=$HOME/.config/cr1 /usr/bin/chromium "$@"

Thanks again. The second option helped me.