Re: Font size in GTK

["Arno" <dark-arno ifrance com>]

On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Allin Cottrell wrote:
> On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Arno Dark wrote:
>
> > I have an other question in the difference beetween GTK 1 et 2. I change
> > the font of a widget and I print the same message. But the string have
> > not the same heigth with gtk 1 et 2.
> >
> > For exemple, you can see this screen shot :
> > http://www.arnoraes.freesurf.fr/Forum/font_size.png . The top window is
> > compiled with GTK 2 and the second with GTK 1. We can see that for the
> > same font, the text use a more important place in GTK 2.
>
> It's not actually the same font.  Using the GTK 2.0 font selector I
> can reproduce the two fonts for your string "Address Resolution
> Protocol" as follows:
>
> 1. In the window in the background, where the text is more condensed,
> "Fixed Medium Semi-Condensed 12".
>
> 2. In the foreground window with the larger text, "Fixed Medium 12"
> (or 11, it makes no difference on my system since there is not
> actually a different font for the "11-point" and "12-point" sizes).

Thank you for this answer, I can't test today but tomorrow evening, I test
it. I must only replace "fixed" by "Fixed Medium Semi-Condensed 12" in this
sample :

renderer = gtk_cell_renderer_text_new ();
g_object_set (G_OBJECT (renderer), "font", "fixed", NULL);


> So if you prefer the smaller look you should just have to specify
> "Semi-Condensed" in your font description.
>
> BTW, what WM/theme is that in your screen shot?  I like the title bar
> style :-)

It's blackbox. There are many themes :)

> Allin Cottrell.

Arno

 
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