Need monospace font for zenity

Discussion:

Todd And Margo Chester

2011-12-31 05:14:13 UTC

Hi All,

I am using Scientific Linux 6.2 x64 (RHEL clone):

$ zenity --info --title="abc" --font "monospace 9" --text "abcdefg"
This option is not available. Please see --help for all possible usages.

$ zenity --help-all | grep -i font
<nothing>

$ rpm -qa \*zenity\*
zenity-2.28.0-1.el6.x86_64

I really need a monospaced font. I am drawing a blank on Google.
Any one know how to do this?

Many thanks,
-T

Keith Chadwick

2011-12-31 05:22:04 UTC

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courier is a monospaced font.

-Keith.

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
Hi All,
$ zenity --info --title="abc" --font "monospace 9" --text "abcdefg"
This option is not available. Please see --help for all possible usages.
$ zenity --help-all | grep -i font
<nothing>
$ rpm -qa \*zenity\*
zenity-2.28.0-1.el6.x86_64
I really need a monospaced font. I am drawing a blank on Google.
Any one know how to do this?
Many thanks,
-T

Todd And Margo Chester

2011-12-31 05:39:46 UTC

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Post by Keith Chadwick

courier is a monospaced font.
-Keith.

How do I use Courier in my command line? Where and how do
I put it?

$ zenity --info --title="abc" --font "courier" --text "abcdefg"
This option is not available. Please see --help for all possible usages.

Many thanks,
-T

Phong Nguyen

2011-12-31 05:52:39 UTC

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It looks like zenity uses the global font settings and does not have an option to override it.

Why do you need to change it?

Todd And Margo Chester

2012-01-01 04:57:07 UTC

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Post by Phong Nguyen

It looks like zenity uses the global font settings and does not have
an option to override it.
Why do you need to change it?

I need to change it for text alignment purposes. Without a monospaced
font, when displaying the following through zenity,

# virsh list --all
Id Name State
----------------------------------
- KVM-FC16-LiveCD shut off
- KVM-ReactOS shut off
- KVM-W7 shut off
- KVM-WinXP shut off

looks like

Id Name State
-------------------------
- KVM-FC16-LiveCD shut off
- KVM-ReactOS shut off
- KVM-W7 shut off
- KVM-WinXP shut off

Jason Bronner

2012-01-01 06:02:13 UTC

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i'd probably round up any one of 100 repacked Windows Fonts (msttcorefonts)
.RPMs, force it to courier new, and forget about it. there's scads of
how-tos running around for Fedora and Red Hat based systems.

Todd And Margo Chester

2012-01-01 21:51:07 UTC

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Post by Jason Bronner
i'd probably round up any one of 100 repacked Windows Fonts
(msttcorefonts) .RPMs, force it to courier new, and forget about it.
there's scads of how-tos running around for Fedora and Red Hat based
systems.

I like the fonts otherwise. I just what to change zenity's fonts.

Phong Nguyen

2012-01-01 16:43:38 UTC

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Why not parse the output and put it into a formatted list dialogue?

Post by Todd And Margo Chester
I need to change it for text alignment purposes. Without a monospaced
font, when displaying the following through zenity,
# virsh list --all
Id Name State
----------------------------------
- KVM-FC16-LiveCD shut off
- KVM-ReactOS shut off
- KVM-W7 shut off
- KVM-WinXP shut off
looks like
Id Name State
-------------------------
- KVM-FC16-LiveCD shut off
- KVM-ReactOS shut off
- KVM-W7 shut off
- KVM-WinXP shut off

Todd And Margo Chester

2012-01-01 21:50:28 UTC

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Post by Phong Nguyen

Why not parse the output and put it into a formatted list dialogue?

What do you mean?

Brett Viren

2012-01-03 19:25:31 UTC

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Post by Todd And Margo Chester

Post by Phong Nguyen
Why not parse the output and put it into a formatted list dialogue?

What do you mean?

zenity --list --column "Id Name" --column "State" "KVM-FC16-LiveCD" "shut off" "KVM-ReactOS" "shut off"

(etc for all your rows)

-Brett.

Todd And Margo Chester

2012-01-01 22:35:54 UTC

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Hi All,

Krzysztof over on comp.os.linux.misc showed me what to
do. The solution is to use a custom .gtkrc.

Thank you all for the tips and help!

-T

My notes on the subject:

How to set up a custom (in this case a "monospace") font in zenity:

A helpful reference:

http://urukrama.wordpress.com/2008/07/13/setting-a-custom-gtk-theme-for-specific-applications

Use a "custom" gtkrc. Start you zenity command with:

GTK2_RC_FILES=/path/to/your/theme/gtkrc zenity ....

For example:

$ xx="`su root -c "virsh list --all"`"

Show the bad spacing:
$ zenity --info --title="abc" --text "$xx"

$ cp .gtkrc .gtkrc.monospace.12

Add the customer font:
$ vi .gtkrc.monospace.12
style "font" {
font_name="monospace 12"
}
widget_class "*" style "font"
gtk-font-name = "monospace 12"

Show the good spacing:
$ GTK2_RC_FILES=/home/todd/.gtkrc.monospace.12 \
zenity --info --title="Status" --text "$xx"