#254 "yad --calendar" does not support font sizes

[John Pezzano]

yad --calendar provides the month nicely formatted. However, it is too small for touchscreen monitors with the user selecting the date or to move between months or years.

yad --calendar --height=400 --width=400 makes the window but not the fonts bigger.

There is no documented way with the calendar option make the font larger.

[Victor Ananjevsky]

the only way to do this is use the custom gtkrc

style "big-font" {
    font_name = "Monospace 16"
}
widget "*yad-calendar-widget" style "big-font"

place this style in separate file, for example ~/mygtkrc, and launch calendar as

yad --calendar --height=400 --width=400 --gtkrc=~/mygtkrc

NB: i'm not sure if this will works with gtk3

[John Pezzano]

I tried it. yad version is 0.28.1
Seems like gtk 3 and 2 are both installed
libgtk-2.0-common
libgtk-3.0-common

Did not work. No error or warning messages from yad.

I appreciate the help you have given me.

[Victor Ananjevsky]

ldd which yad | grep libgtk - this command shows you gtk library linked with yad

if your yad binary linked with libgtk-3.0 you may customize dialogs through gtk.css

place something like

GtkCalendar#yad-calendar-widget {
    font: "Sans 20";
}

into ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css

[John Pezzano]

ldd `which yad` | grep libgtk

libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0

[Victor Ananjevsky]

if so, the recipe with your own gtkrc must work. at least it works for me.

can you show me how you do that?