Font of Back in time

[Sigurd]

Hi,
Is there anybody who can tell me where "Back in time" takes the font from? I just have such a small font and I don't know where to change it for a bigger one?
Kind regards,
Sigurd

[kdemeoz]

Ha, that's interesting -- i have the opposite preference!  

For me, the default font is too big; i'd like it to be the same Noto Sans 8 that i use for Dolphin [& everywhere else, per Maui's System Settings - Font Settings]. I looked in BiT's config file, in /home/~/.config/backintime, but it has no font settings there as far as i could understand. I wonder if we could manually add it into there... but if so, i don't know the protocol.

[leszek]

I think backintime is still based on qt4 so maybe qtconfig-qt4 can help you configuring it. Though it is strange that it does not use the global font settings (as other kde4libs or qt4 based apps do)

[kdemeoz]

I think backintime is still based on qt4 so maybe qtconfig-qt4 can help you configuring it. Though it is strange that it does not use the global font settings (as other kde4libs or qt4 based apps do)

Oh wow -- wonderful -- your suggestion worked brilliantly -- thank you. 

Not only has this now fixed the fonts to my liking in BiT, but also FireJail's FireTools & KeePassX [always had "huge" fonts; much too big for my tastes... but now good]. 

[Sigurd]

I think backintime is still based on qt4 so maybe qtconfig-qt4 can help you configuring it. Though it is strange that it does not use the global font settings (as other kde4libs or qt4 based apps do)

Oh wow -- wonderful -- your suggestion worked brilliantly -- thank you. 

Not only has this now fixed the fonts to my liking in BiT, but also FireJail's FireTools & KeePassX [always had "huge" fonts; much too big for my tastes... but now good]. 

Hi leszek,
when I try to search for qtconfig-qt4 in dolphin I only get an error message (process died unexpectedly). Even if I start Dolphin as super administrator with kdesudo dolphin I get that error message. But interesting is that dolphin in super administrator mode seems to use the same small font.
Kind regards,
Sigurd

[kdemeoz]

I think backintime is still based on qt4 so maybe qtconfig-qt4 can help you configuring it. Though it is strange that it does not use the global font settings (as other kde4libs or qt4 based apps do)

Hi leszek,
when I try to search for qtconfig-qt4 in dolphin 

Oh, no. You don't use Dolphin, you need to use Synaptic, or Konsole, to INSTALL it. Once you have it installed, you can launch it, & then in its pretty nice GUI, you can adjust the fonts for qt4 pgms.

   

   

[Sigurd]

Hi leszek,

as usual, when I have a problem, you know what to do. Thank you very much. I could fix the problem and got a nice readable font in Backintime - great.

Kind regards,
Sigurd

[kdemeoz]

I think backintime is still based on qt4 so maybe qtconfig-qt4 can help you configuring it. Though it is strange that it does not use the global font settings (as other kde4libs or qt4 based apps do)

Oh wow -- wonderful -- your suggestion worked brilliantly -- thank you. 

Not only has this now fixed the fonts to my liking in BiT, but also FireJail's FireTools & KeePassX [always had "huge" fonts; much too big for my tastes... but now good]. 

Oh rats. None of my Qt4 pgms retain my changed font settings across reboots. All of them are great, within the session that i do the edit, but after next boot they lose my settings again. I have to keep re-editing. Is there a way to make the changes permanent pls?

[leszek]

Usually they should be permanent. The config is written in ~/.config/Trolltech.conf
Make sure this file is writable.

[kdemeoz]

Thanks. It is writable, I am the owner, & its permissions are:   -rw-r--r--

Reading the file in Kate, down near the bottom [in red font; is that bad?], is:

Code:

font="Noto Sans,8,-1,5,50,0,0,0,0,0"
fontPath=@Invalid()

Noto Sans 8 is my setting. Is the "Invalid" indicative of a fault?

Other than those 2 questions, nothing seems to be incorrect, yet my edits just do not "stick".   :-(