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Hello All,

Wasn't sure if this was the correct thread to post this under but figured it has to do with Perl and Gtk2 so why not...

Anyway.. How can I find out what the Default font being used is inside a

Code:

Gtk2::Widget

. In this case I'm trying to figure out the
font being used inside a

Code:

Gtk2::TextView

widget. I have NOT set any Font-type options/attributes or anything like that, so I'm assuming its whatever the default one would be...?

Is there anyway I can figure this out somehow? Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!


Edit:
I just had an idea to try and figure this out... So I created a "

Code:

Gtk2::FontButton

" which is just an easier way to get a

Code:

Gtk2::FontSelectionDialog

to open. And when I add this to the window and then click on the button, the default font that's showing in that is "Sans 12pt"... So I'm thinking that is probably it...

If I add

Code:

face => 'Sans'

to one of my TextTags, it doesn't look like the Font is changing, which I guess could mean 2 things.

One: it is the default font which is why it doesn't look like it's changing because it was already that font
Two: it doesn't exist and that's why the Font isn't changing...


Thanks in Advance,
Matt

Hey Jim, thanks for the "Cleanup".
I was kinda in a rush when I posted my question...


If "Sans" is showing in the FontSelectionDialog as the default selected font, how come I can't seem to find it?

I've checked this location, including all subdirs:

Code:

> ls -l /usr/share/fonts
total 232
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 90112 May 11  2011 100dpi
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 94208 May 11  2011 75dpi
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 May 11  2011 cyrillic
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root  4096 May 11  2011 encodings
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 20480 May 11  2011 misc
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 May 11  2011 Speedo
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 Jul 24 15:55 truetype
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 May 11  2011 Type1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root    20 Oct  4  2012 URW -> ../ghostscript/fonts
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root  4096 May 11  2011 util

There are plenty of fonts with 'Sans' in their title but nothing that's called just "Sans"... Any ideas?


EDIT:
Ok, so I just found this in my Gtk2 documentation:

Code:

The "font-name" property

   "font-name"                gchar*                : Read / Write The string that represents this font.
 Default value: "Sans 10"

As you can see it says the Default value is "Sans 10" but I can't find that anywhere....?

Thanks,
Matt