Re: IceCat from Guix all monospaced font

[Zelphir Kaltstahl <zelphirkaltstahl@gmail.com>]

And I corrected the typo with the "i", but no luck.

On 5/4/19 10:00 PM, Zelphir Kaltstahl wrote:
> Hi, thanks for your reply!
>
> First I tried the fc-match. It returned:
>
> DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
>
> Then I looked for the ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini file. It did not
> exist, only "bookmarks" and "gtk.css" existed at that location. So I
> created the "settings.ini" file and put in there the following:
>
> [Settings]
> gtk-font-name=i"DejaVu Sans" "Book" 11
>
> After that another fc-match with same result:
>
> DejaVuSans.ttf: "DejaVu Sans" "Book"
>
> Still no luck in Icecat. I restarted it, but still everything in its UI
> and on all websites is monospaced, despite other settings in
> "userChrome.css" in my browser profile (for UI) and Icecat preferences
> (for websites).
>
> Regards,
>
> Zelphir
>
>
> On 5/4/19 9:25 PM, ison wrote:
>> Icecat is a GTK3 application. Have you tried setting your GTK3 font?
>> You can do so with an application like lxappearance
>> (under the "widget" tab, select "Default font")
>>
>> Alternatively you can set it manually.
>> If I'm not mistaken it should be in the file: ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
>> At the bare minimum I think you should have this:
>>
>> [Settings]
>> gtk-font-name=<My Font> <Weight> <Size>
>>
>> The weight can be things like "Regular", "Medium", or "Bold" or other variants
>> Make sure your font is being located correctly by fontconfig. You can test it
>> with: fc-match "My Font"
>>
>> Also, for the record you might want to check what gets returned when you just
>> type fc-match with no options. Because that's usually the default most
>> applications will select, and it sounds like you might have it set to a
>> monospace font, which probably isn't the best setting in general.