hi,
I would like to change the size of the font used by Xdialog.
The --fontsel option gives a wide choice, but after that, I found no
way the its output.
I wrote the following bigfont.rc file
On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:14:44 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> I would like to change the size of the font used by Xdialog. The
> --fontsel option gives a wide choice, but after that, I found no way the
> its output.
> I wrote the following bigfont.rc file
>
> style 'big_font' {
> fg[NORMAL] = { 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 }
> bg[NORMAL] = { 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 }
> font = "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-*-*-240-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1"
> }
>
> widget '*' style 'big_font'
Based on this:
http://xdialog.free.fr/doc/faq.html#Q07
The font syntax looks right :-?
> and then did something like:
> Xdialog --rc-file bigfont.rc --msgbox "--rc-file demonstration" 0 0
>
> the color information from bigfont.rc is actually used, but not the
> font.
>
> Any idea?
Could it be because the kind of widget you are using (--msgbox) does not
allow the font property to be changed? I would try with the exact example
used in the FAQ.
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07-03-2012, 06:51 PM
Pierre Frenkiel
changing the font size in Xdialog
On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Camale?n wrote:
Could it be because the kind of widget you are using (--msgbox) does not
allow the font property to be changed? I would try with the exact example
used in the FAQ.
I actually tried with --textbox, and the rc-file given in the example:
That doesn't work, and after that, I discovered that the font name in the
rc-file is not used, i.e. if you put a wrong font name, you get
no error message.
idem if you give a non existing rc file. Now, doing more tests, I
discovered that the following command is accepted: without any error
message: !!!
Xdialog --anything --msgbox "xdialog test" 0 0
idem with
Xdialog anything bla_bla --msgbox "xdialog test" 0 0
That seems really crazy!
do you have the same behaviour?
Xdialog --version
Version: 2.3.1
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On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 20:51:37 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Jul 2012, Camale?n wrote:
>
>> Could it be because the kind of widget you are using (--msgbox) does
>> not allow the font property to be changed? I would try with the exact
>> example used in the FAQ.
>
> I actually tried with --textbox, and the rc-file given in the
> example:
>
> Xdialog --rc-file fixed-font.rc --textbox file 0 0
>
> That doesn't work,
How bad :-(
Then it can be something worth to report to the Xdialog developer...
ouch, hold on:
***
http://xdialog.free.fr/
Remarks regarding some distributions quirks:
- Recent Debian distributions seem to have utterly broken fonts for GTK+
v1.2. Please, do NOT report bugs dealing with weird/badly looking fonts
under Debian: this is NOT an Xdialog bug but rather deals with how
screwed up is Debian's fonts system.
- Still about Debian: given how rigid is the (IMHO stupid) Debian policy
about packaging, and how stubborn are the Debian maintainers, I do NOT
and will NEVER support any Debian-related problem. If you are using a
Debian (or a Debian-based) distribution and think you found a bug,
please, first recompile Xdialog from the sources available on this site
before concluding it's a bug in the genuine Xdialog. I will NOT bother
with investigating bugs introduced with Debian's private patches which
are unapproved by me.
***
Wow... not a Debian lover here :-P
I'm afraid you are on your own unless you are using the upstream sources
and still can reproduce the error.
> and after that, I discovered that the font name in
> the rc-file is not used, i.e. if you put a wrong font name, you get
> no error message.
>
> idem if you give a non existing rc file. Now, doing more tests, I
> discovered that the following command is accepted: without any error
> message: !!!
>
> Xdialog --anything --msgbox "xdialog test" 0 0
> idem with
> Xdialog anything bla_bla --msgbox "xdialog test" 0 0
>
> That seems really crazy!
Yes, that behaviour is a bit of nonsense.
> do you have the same behaviour?
>
> Xdialog --version
> Version: 2.3.1
You must be still on Lenny, right?
I use "zenity" (to drawn small GTK GUI dialogs) and "dialog" for ncurses,
I'm not using Xdialog which BTW, looks like it has been removed from
Debian repositories.
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07-04-2012, 04:24 PM
Pierre Frenkiel
changing the font size in Xdialog
On Wed, 4 Jul 2012, Camale?n wrote:
http://xdialog.free.fr/
Remarks regarding some distributions quirks:
Wow... not a Debian lover here :-P
yes, and In My Holy Opinion, stupid...
If the font are broken, how comes that they are displayed correctly
(good shape and size), with the --fontsel option !?
Anyway, I re-compiled from the tar source, and got EXACTLY the
same behaviour. So it seems that I have now the right to fill a bug report.
You must be still on Lenny, right?
No, I am on Squeeze on my desktop, and SID on my laptop:
same behaviour on both
I use "zenity" (to drawn small GTK GUI dialogs) and "dialog" for ncurses,
I'm not using Xdialog which BTW, looks like it has been removed from
Debian repositories.
yes. I must have installed it before the removal.
I looked at zenity some time ago, and found it had less features than xdialog
I'll check whether this is still true.
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