GnuCash Default Font

Bradley Giesbrecht brad at pixilla.com
Sat Jan 17 19:57:52 PST 2009


On Jan 17, 2009, at 7:33 PM, Mark wrote:

> John R. Carter, Sr. wrote:
>>
>> On a Mac:
>>
>> $ sudo nano -w `which startx`
>>
>> (Use back quotes in the above.)
>> Change the first occurrence of defaultserverargs to read as follows:
>>
>> defaultserverargs=”-dpi 96”
>>
>> You will have to restart X11 if it is already active.
>>
>> All this does is ensure that the X11 display resolution is the same  
>> as the default system font.
>>
>> On Jan 16, 2009, at 11:59 PM, Mark wrote:
>>
>>> (I just posted on a related GnuCash topic, so please forgive the
>>> repetition of my system details.) I have just finished a complete  
>>> fresh
>>> install of Macports, followed by a native Quartz, minimal  
>>> (+without_hbci
>>> +without_ofx +without_quotes) install of GnuCash on MBP 10.5.6.
>>>
>>> I can't figure out how to change the default font for the program.  
>>> When
>>> I used to run GnuCash under X11 (Fink package GnuCash2), I had --  
>>> and
>>> still have -- a file in my home directory named .gtkrc-2.0 which
>>> contains a single line: gtk-font-name = "Luxi Mono 16" -- and that  
>>> used
>>> to cause GnuCash to use that font in all its windows.
>>>
>>> But not anymore! Apparently native Quartz GnuCash installed via  
>>> MacPorts
>>> isn't consulting ~/gtkrc-2.0, or is somehow overriding it?  
>>> Anything I
>>> can do to get my big beautiful font back?

How do you build the Quartz version?
I see no Quartz variant.



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