[Sugar-devel] GConf

[Cilyan Olowen]

To change your gconf values, use rather a tool like gconftool-2 or gconf-editor.
Use
$ gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/interface/font_name --type String "Sans 10"
or similar to change the current font.
/desktop/gnome/interface/document_font_name or
/desktop/gnome/interface/monospace_font_name are also valid keys.
You may also set this in the .gtkrc-2.0 file
Cilyan

2009/12/22 Art Hunkins <abhunkin at uncg.edu>:
> Thanks, Walter. I see it now.
>
> I note that whereas ~/.gconf doesn't have a %gconf.xml file, all the several
> layers of subdirectories do. However, all are empty except two, and they
> have nothing to do with fonts.
>
> Can you suggest which %gconf.xml to manually add a (temporary) entry to, for
> font-testing purposes? (I.e., to set a font size other than 10.) Also, the
> format for that code?
>
> I've tried the "normal" method for specifying font size ("gtk-font-name" and
> gtk.Settings). This results in varied size menu-bar text, but no change in
> my Pango-based text size. My conclusion: either this old method is
> deprecated, or I haven't yet found the proper mechanism to connect
> Pango-based font sizing with system defaults.
>
> I'm lost, and would appreciate further guidance from you experts.
>
> Art Hunkins
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Walter Bender" <walter.bender at gmail.com>
> To: "Art Hunkins" <abhunkin at uncg.edu>
> Cc: <sugar-devel at lists.sugarlabs.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, December 22, 2009 3:29 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sugar-devel] GConf
>
>
>> It is a directory, not a file. ~/.gconf
>>
>> -walter
>>
>> On Tue, Dec 22, 2009 at 2:12 PM, Art Hunkins <abhunkin at uncg.edu> wrote:
>>> Where does the GConf file live?
>>>
>>> I've built a font-resizing routine that works well on different format
>>> screens and that utilizes only Pango, not system defaults.
>>>
>>> I'm eager to know that it functions well with different GConf settings.
>>>
>>> If it's not obvious how to change the default font_size in GConf (for
>>> testing purposes), I'd appreciate a suggestion here as well.
>>>
>>> Art Hunkins
>>>
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>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Walter Bender
>> Sugar Labs
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