[Geany-Users] GTK Theming

[Lex Trotman]

Mike,

It works if you use wildcard matches appropriately, eg

widget "*.GeanyMenubar*" ...


Cheers
Lex

On 10 May 2017 at 10:09, Lex Trotman <elextr at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10 May 2017 at 09:57, Matthew Brush <mbrush at codebrainz.ca> wrote:
>> On 2017-05-09 3:55 PM, Mike Miller wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I'd like to change the main menu font size on Geany.  Long story but I
>>> have two monitors with different DPIs and need the menus and notebook
>>> tabs to be smaller on the larger monitor, because they're huge.
>>>
>>> Using these instructions:
>>>
>>> http://www.geany.org/manual/current/#defining-own-widget-styles-using-gtkrc-2-0
>>>
>>>
>>> I put this in my ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and in the same file in my current theme,
>>> but it didn't work:
>>>
>>>
>>> style "geanyStyle"
>>> {
>>>     font_name="Sans 10"
>>> }
>>>
>>> widget "GeanyToolbarMenu" style "geanyStyle"
>>>
>>> style "geanyStyle2"
>>> {
>>>     font_name="Sans 10"
>>> }
>>> widget "GeanyMenubar" style "geanyStyle2"
>>>
>>>
>>> Not sure why it doesn't work.  :/
>>>
>>
>> A few ideas:
>>
>> 1) Make sure you aren't using a GTK3 build of Geany.
>> 2) Maybe the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 isn't reloaded until you log back in?
>> 3) Try an application-specific gtkrc file (by setting GTK_RC_FILES envvar
>> before running Geany)
>> 4) Try using  'class' instead of 'widget' and use GTK class names like
>> GtkToolbar and GtkMenuItem.
>> 5) Make sure you aren't using a bad desktop environment that hijacks the
>> menu from Geany using patched GTK/modules to move it into the panel (ex.
>> Unity/GNOME shill).
>> 6) Above, do you want 'GeanyToolbar' instead of 'GeanyToolbarMenu'?
>>
>> That's all I can think of.
>>
>> P.S. I think you can use one style for multiple widget/class.
>>
>> Good luck,
>> Matthew Brush
>>
>
> Can confirm it doesn't work for me either and I tried most of Matthews
> ideas, and yeah its reading the ~/.gtkrc-2.0 file because it whinged
> about a typo.
>
> So unless a GTK expert pronounces here could you raise an issue at
> https://github.com/geany/geany/issues.
>
> Cheers
> Lex
>
>
>>
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