i made the change & it just totally threw me off, i was still trying to use the alt key, going to take getting use to. lol, i haven’t had enough coffee yet, just going through the motions, like trying to get use to a new keyboard.
Hi I just wanted to update again. I have tried changing the font size to 12pt on gtk-{2,3,4} files. This is working fine for gtk applications like Emacs. However, the gnome applications like Gnome Files still use the Noto Sans 11 font.
The font settings on the 00-user.conf file do not seem to work either.
I tried dconf-editor but I can’t make a change of font size from there either. I am not using the latest image still so this could be already fixed. If not, how can I adjust fonts for gnome applications in Manjaro Sway?
Yes, that section. It is just that if I want to modify the value of the font, say from Cantarell 11 to Noto Sans 12 it is not allowing to remove Cantarell 11. Actually I am not able to change any settings using dconf-editor; seems like all the values are in read-only mode.
Another question. Why doesn’t dconf-editor reflect the default font of manjaro sway, which is Noto Sans 11?
sway is not gnome.
did you flip the switch at the bottom, you need to turn the default off before you can change it.
Should get updated as part of the 01-enable-gtk-theme script: overlays/sway/etc/skel/.config/sway/themes/scripts/01-enable-gtk-theme · master · manjaro-arm / applications / arm-profiles · GitLab
EDIT: OK, bug found. As the font name contains spaces it has to be masked accordingly to be set correctly from the script: [sway] run global sway scripts; bugfix gsettings font updates (79c45fae) · Commits · manjaro-arm / applications / arm-profiles · GitLab
Ok, I turned off the default option on dconf-editor and it seems to be working for gnome applications.
As of now, I have gnome, gtk and qt application fonts resized. I have also scaled up the waybar font; however, the tooltips on waybar are still small, i.e. they do not scale up accordingly. So, I have to find a way.
I would also like to change the fixed term fonts and waybar fonts, which seems to be using a fixed terminal font too, to my liking, e.g. source code pro or hack or similar. I guess the termite has separate settings. I was wondering the rest eg waybar, gtk, gnome could be adjusted.
For the tooltips in Waybar there is an open GH issue that you might want to check out: Wiki on how to style tooltips? · Issue #951 · Alexays/Waybar · GitHub
Nope, tooltips on my pbp is still the original one. Hard to read, I sometimes check my tooltip calendar etc.
Good to know it is a bug. I would likely change the waybar fonts including tooltips.
Thanks for the help again. I am working much comfortable from my pbp.
you can change the size of the calendar, default it’s set to small.
i change the top to small & calendar to big.
The tooltip is already set to big in my config file. Likely the bug reported here, I guess.
"clock": {
"interval": 60,
"format": " {:%e %b %Y %H:%M}", // Icon: calendar-alt
"tooltip": true,
"tooltip-format": "<big>{:%B %Y}</big>\n<tt>{calendar}</tt>",
"on-click": "swaymsg exec \\$calendar"
},Experimenting with clock and your tip, I ended up getting a more readable calendar.
“clock”: {
“interval”: 60,
“format”: “ {:%e %b %Y %H:%M}”, // Icon: calendar-alt
“tooltip”: true,
//“tooltip-format”: “{:%B %Y}\n{calendar}”,
“tooltip-format”: “{:%B %Y}\n{calendar}”,
“on-click”: “swaymsg exec \$calendar”
},
"clock": {
"interval": 60,
"format": " {:%e %b %Y %H:%M}", // Icon: calendar-alt
"tooltip": true,
//"tooltip-format": "<big>{:%B %Y}</big>\n<tt>{calendar}</tt>",
"tooltip-format": "<big>{:%B %Y}</big>\n<tt><big>{calendar}</big></tt>",
"on-click": "swaymsg exec \\$calendar"
},I need to play with other tooltip settings such as cpu, ram usage to see if they can be set to bigger fonts.
you can “man waybar” to see the settings.
mines a custom install, i did a minimal+sway & built up from there. i wanted to see a default install.
Just check the mentioned GH issue… it explains how to style tool tips (at least globally, which should be ok for your font size issue)
Ok, I am reading the man page.
Actually, I was considering to do a sway install from Manjaro minimal too. I didn’t carry on because I thought connecting to wifi from the manjaro minimal command interface could be a problem. I remember wpa-supplicant was needed for that.
How did you setup your network connection? Was it cable based when you start with minimal?
Ok great, thank you. I will try to implement.
minimal has iwd:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Iwd
the only part i used, cause i already know the info.
iwctl --passphrase passphrase station device connect SSID
for me device is wlan0.
once i do wifi i:
sudo pacman -Syuu
then i’ll start installing:
sudo pacman -S gdm sway nautilus gedit gnome-terminal etc…
gdm has to be enabled:
sudo systemctl enable gdm
then you can reboot
when you get into sway, copy /etc/sway to ~/.config & go to town on it
waybar is a separate install, you have to setup.