[Geany] Get Geany to use bitmap font?

[John Gabriele]

On 5/3/07, Enrico Tröger <enrico.troeger at uvena.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 2 May 2007 16:33:18 -0400, "John Gabriele" <jmg3000 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Anyone know how to get Geany to use a bitmap X11 font like
> > -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-SemiCondensed--13-120-75-75-C-60-ISO10646-1 ?
>
> it depends ;-).
> For Geany generally modifying ~/.gtkrc-2.0 should work. Somewhere in
> the gaim FAQs it is described, if I remember correctly.

Yes, you're remembering correctly, though now it's called "Pidgin"
instead of Gaim. I'd found it googling
(http://www.pidgin.im/faq.php#q16), but wasn't able to figure out the
exact incantation to get it to work for Geany.

> For the editor widget, Scintilla is responsible for font handling. You
> only can specify Pango fonts(Gdk fonts would also be possible but
> probably you don't want to use them).

Ok, thanks.