Autostart kate - small font

[deano_ferrari]

OK, here's my script

#! /bin/bash  
if [ "$1" = "post" ]; then   
su ian -c 'DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/kate /home/ian/misc/ian.rem' 
fi

It should probably be run as

su - ian -c 'DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/kate /home/ian/misc/ian.rem'

so environment is switched to pertinent user as well.

[ian_gay]

It should probably be run as

su - ian -c 'DISPLAY=:0 /usr/bin/kate /home/ian/misc/ian.rem'

so environment is switched to pertinent user as well.

The additionsl - makes no difference.

As I mentioned a couple of posts back, changing menu font in systemssettings has no effect on the menu font used in KDE apps. Further experimentation shows that they use for their menus the font which is called 'general' in systemsettings. (Surely a bug, but not pertinent at the moment.)

So I have tried changing both menu and general fonts in both my user account and in the root account. None of these changes have any effect on the menu font used by kate when launched from script in system-sleep. So where is kate getting its font information in this case???

[deano_ferrari]

The additionsl - makes no difference.

As I mentioned a couple of posts back, changing menu font in systemssettings has no effect on the menu font used in KDE apps. Further experimentation shows that they use for their menus the font which is called 'general' in systemsettings. (Surely a bug, but not pertinent at the moment.)

It's not clear to me why it would behave differently when launched via desktop autostart vs the systemd script (assuming run as user and same environment variables applied).

So I have tried changing both menu and general fonts in both my user account and in the root account. None of these changes have any effect on the menu font used by kate when launched from script in system-sleep. So where is kate getting its font information in this case???

You could try using the qt5ct (Qt5 Configuration Tool) perhaps.

[ian_gay]

It's not clear to me why it would behave differently when launched via desktop autostart vs the systemd script (assuming run as user and same environment variables applied).


You could try using the qt5ct (Qt5 Configuration Tool) perhaps.

Thank you! That solves it. I didn't know about qt5ct. The font set in this app is used for menus and toolbar of kate launched from systemd script. The general font from systemsettings is still used when kate is launched normally from the desktop.

(The scaling is slightly different in the two cases, however...)