This is the Get-E.org Enlightenment DR17 User Guide. Please note that this guide only covers the E17 windowmanager and its dependencies. For information on other EFL based programs, consult the EFL user guide instead.

6.1.2 - Fonts

It is possible to change the fonts in E17. There are some things you need to know first though:

• This may not work in non-default themes, as this functionality may not be implemented.
• The font used in the window decoration titlebar and the various dialogs can be changed without having to compile a custom theme, assuming the font is included with the theme being used.
• All fonts that E17 uses come from the default theme; if the theme doesn't include the font, you'll have to compile a custom theme.

In order to see what fonts are currently available, use the following command:

$ enlightenment_remote -font-available-list
REPLY <- BEGIN
REPLY: "Vera-Bold-Italic"
REPLY: "Vera-Normal"
REPLY: "Vera-Bold"
REPLY: "Vera-Italic"
REPLY: "Vera-Mono-Bold-Italic"
REPLY: "Vera-Mono-Bold"
REPLY: "Vera-Mono-Italic"
REPLY: "Vera-Mono"
REPLY: "Vera-Serif"
REPLY: "Vera-Serif-Bold"
REPLY: "Vera"
REPLY: "Baekmuk-Dotum"
REPLY: "Kochi-Gothic"
REPLY: "New-Sung"
REPLY <- END

In order to change the font, you'll need to use enlightenment_remote:

-font-default-set      OPT1 OPT2 OPT3 - Set textclass (OPT1) font (OPT2) and size (OPT3)

There are two different text-classes: title_bar and default. The default textclass is the font used in the various dialogs, for example in the "About Enlightenment" window. The title_bar text-class is the font used in the window decoration titlebar. The font name (OPT2) is the one shown with enlightenment_remote -font-available-list. You can also check what fonts are currently being used:

$ enlightenment_remote -font-default-list
REPLY: BEGIN
REPLY: DEFAULT TEXT_CLASS="default" NAME="Vera-Bold-Italic" SIZE=10
REPLY: DEFAULT TEXT_CLASS="title_bar" NAME="Vera" SIZE=10
REPLY: END

These are the default fonts. Now you can easily change them by using the enlightenment_remote -font-default-set command. For example, if you want to switch the window decoration titlebar font to a size 12 Vera-Bold, you would use the following command:

$ enlightenment_remote -font-default-set default Vera-Bold 12

If you'd also want to switch the dialog font to the same font:

$ enlightenment_remote -font-default-set title_bar Vera-Bold 12

The window dialog font should apply immediately, but you need to to run the following command in order for other font system related settings (in this case the window decoration titlebar font) to apply:

$ enlightenment_remote -font-apply

Now that you've changed the font settings, enlightenment_remote -font-default-list should display your new settings:

$ enlightenment_remote -font-default-list
REPLY: BEGIN
REPLY: DEFAULT TEXT_CLASS="default" NAME="Vera-Bold" SIZE=12
REPLY: DEFAULT TEXT_CLASS="title_bar" NAME="Vera-Bold" SIZE=12
REPLY: END

All font changes are automatically saved. If you wish to go back to the default fonts, just run these commands and restart E17:

$ enlightenment_remote -font-default-set default Vera 10
$ enlightenment_remote -font-default-set title_bar Vera 10