Re: How to change the default font of a GtkTextView?

[Olexiy Avramchenko <olexiy ctech cn ua>]

Juha Nieminen wrote:

>  One would think changing the default font of a newly-created GtkTextView
> would be a piece of cake, but I simply can't find any way of doing that.
> There doesn't seem to be any function which would do that directly in
> either GtkTextView nor in any base classes.
>  My best guess was this:
>
> pango_font_description_set_family(textView->style->font_desc, "Courier");
>
>  However, it doesn't seem to work. How should it be done?
Just use gtk_widget_modify_font() for your textView object. You need to 
create a PangoFontDescription object before, 
pango_font_description_from_string() is a simple method of doing this. 
Dont forget to free the object after use.

>  (Applying tags to the whole textbuffer is not a good solution because
> they don't stay applied to the whole text when the text is edited from
> the beginning or the end. Besides, it feels needless when there should
> simply be a way of specifying a default font directly.)
>
>  Btw, where do I get a list of font family names? I can't find that either
> (that "Courier" was a pure guess!).
Use following command 'fc-list | sed -e 's,^\(.*\):.*$,\1,' | sort | 
uniq'. fc-list is a tool for quering the fonts avalaible for fontconfig 
library.

   Olexiy