From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Zelphir Kaltstahl Subject: Re: IceCat from Guix all monospaced font Date: Sat, 4 May 2019 22:01:36 +0200 Message-ID: <88adddeb-4444-5f30-11b2-650031b01f74@gmail.com> References: <20190504192534.ahuidfwxfburgno7@cf0> <78e20021-0bf2-555a-c6c9-8b506dec508f@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:59776) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hN0qr-00058K-Ic for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 04 May 2019 16:01:43 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hN0qq-0006Ow-MA for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 04 May 2019 16:01:41 -0400 Received: from mail-wm1-x329.google.com ([2a00:1450:4864:20::329]:53168) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1hN0qp-0006OM-8k for help-guix@gnu.org; Sat, 04 May 2019 16:01:40 -0400 Received: by mail-wm1-x329.google.com with SMTP id v189so2106058wmf.2 for ; Sat, 04 May 2019 13:01:39 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <78e20021-0bf2-555a-c6c9-8b506dec508f@gmail.com> Content-Language: en-US List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-guix-bounces+gcggh-help-guix=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Help-Guix" To: ison Cc: help-guix@gnu.org 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= >> >> 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.