Re: Customization gnome3

[Jason Heeris <jason heeris gmail com>]

There are a couple of things I do to tweak fonts and other settings
(in this order):

1. Use gnome-tweak-tool.

2. Use dconf-editor to change fonts. For example, window title font is
under /org/gnome/desktop/wm/preferences/titlebar-font.

3. The Elegance-colors theme has an associated application
('elegance-colors') that allows you to change theme elements (colours,
opacity, fonts, etc). Note that it does its own styling of the font
you select, so only the base is relevant (eg. Ubuntu Italic might be
changed to plain Ubuntu for the shell, Ubuntu Bold for the panel).

I believe that in general, fonts for the shell and overview are set by
the theme authors, so your options are (a) edit the themes you've been
doing, or (b) find a theme like Elegance-colors that allows you to
change the settings. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Note that I'm using Gnome 3.6 on Ubuntu 12.10, and I suspect that #3
might not work on 3.4, you might want to check that.

Cheers,
Jason

On 13 February 2013 05:13, Chris Jones <cjns1989 gmail com> wrote:
> I have been evaluating gnome-shell v3.4 on a debian sid/unstable test
> system over the last couple of weeks and I'm having a bit of a difficult
> time deciding on a customization strategy.
>
> After changing font settings via gnome-tweak-tool, I noticed that the
> top panel and Overview were not affected.
>
> I also noticed that setting the keyboard theme/profile to emacs had no
> effect on the Search field in the Overview: Ctrl-A for instance selects
> whatever you have already typed instead of emulating the Home keyÂ.
>
> Regarding fonts, a bit of digging revealed that copying the system's
> gnome-shell.css to $HOME/.themes and editing it was an effective way to
> change gnome-shell's default font-family and fontsize.. only to lose
> those changes on the following day.
>
> What happened was that I had downloaded/installed a new theme under
> $HOME/.themes that provided its own gnome-shell.css, thereby overriding
> my font customization (nothing wrong with that.. except that the css
> specified the default Cantarell font..! ).
>
> Concerning fonts, and bringing gnome-shell in line with the choices
> I made for GTK, the "method" that I have adopted is that if I install
> a new theme, I just grep the folder and edit whatever files specify
> font-family and fontsize if necessary.
>
> Since everything else in gnome3 is pretty much a dream come trueÂ, I was
> wondering if some central desktop customization tool that would let you
> set a common "look and feel" is in the works, or at least part of the
> developers' objectives.
>
> Thanks,
>
> CJ
>
> Â So far I haven't figured out how to do that.. suggestions welcome!
>
> Â Not a bad thing in itself, to prod stuff you download from the outside
>   world..
>
> Â Honestly.. it's been ten years I've been waiting for a DE that looks
>   like something I might be able to work with..
>
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