Re: changing the font size in Xdialog

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 03 Jul 2012 13:14:44 +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:

> I would like to change the size of the font used by Xdialog. The
> --fontsel option gives a wide choice, but after that, I found no way the
> its output.
> I wrote the following bigfont.rc file
> 
>     style 'big_font' {
>       fg[NORMAL] = { 1.0, 1.0, 1.0 }
>       bg[NORMAL] = { 0.0, 0.0, 1.0 }
>       font = "-b&h-lucida-medium-r-normal-*-*-240-*-*-p-*-iso10646-1"
>     }
> 
>     widget '*' style 'big_font'

Based on this:

http://xdialog.free.fr/doc/faq.html#Q07

The font syntax looks right :-?
 
> and then did something like:
>     Xdialog --rc-file bigfont.rc --msgbox "--rc-file demonstration" 0 0
> 
> the color information from bigfont.rc is actually used, but not the
> font.
> 
> Any idea?

Could it be because the kind of widget you are using (--msgbox) does not 
allow the font property to be changed? I would try with the exact example 
used in the FAQ.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón