Robomongo: Add preference to change font used in UI

[akurniawan]

Is there any features to change default font? because the font look weird after i changed default font in my ubuntu
thanks :)

[stennie]

@akurniawan There is currently no feature to change the font used in the UI.

Can you attach a screenshot to show what Robomongo looks like after your font change? Also, can you confirm the default font selected and your version of Ubuntu?

Thanks!

[akurniawan]

sory for late reply :)

here is ss for robomongo after change default font

and here is the font i used

i'm using ubuntu 14.04

[stennie]

Thanks @akurniawan. There is a bug in the font height calculation (I raised #649 to fix that) but I think it still makes sense to have font preferences as a feature request.

As per #649, the UI currently makes some height calculations based on fixed font types & sizes which leads to the odd display issue you have reported.

[akurniawan]

Okay thank you so much for the fast response :)

[greenlaw110]

The font preference feature is still not ready in the latest 0.8.5 version? I am using mint 17.1 Rebecca (Cinnamon) and the default font looks too big to me (also comparing to other fonts in my desktop:

Here is my font setting:

[stennie]

@greenlaw110 Correct .. open issues haven't been addressed yet. There's a PR that will be merged for 0.8.6 which you might want to try (if building from source): #803. It lets you override the font via editing the preferences file, but without any UI yet.

[greenlaw110]

@stennie is there any documentation on preferences file?

[zrod]

Hi, I'm experiencing this issue as well (Mate on Debian 8).

[fazy]

The font size is too small for me on the Mac. I don't have good eyesight but don't want to zoom the whole screen (which seems to be the only option on Mac) as this creates other usability issues. I just want the Robomongo query editor to use a larger font.

[oshihirii]

Hello,

I also came across this thread looking for ways to increase font size.

Linux Mint 17.2 Cinnamon 64-bit
Cinnamon 2.6.13

Are there any ways to achieve this?

Thank You.

[joeytwiddle]

In the meantime, people who really need this can can try editing the config file:

On Mac OS X, I closed Robomongo and opened the file ~/.config/robomongo/0.9/robomongo.json and edited the settings textFontFamily and (optionally) textFontPointSize. I imagine this would also work on Linux.

[maqboolkhan]

i was also facing this issue on Windows 10 with mactype installed and i solved this with @joeytwiddle solution by editingC:\Users\Maqbool\.config\robomongo\0.9\robomongo.json and edited the settings textFontFamily! thank you @joeytwiddle

[jfh-crim]

On macOS Sierra, the config file is now at:
~/.3T/robomongo/1.0.0/robomongo.json

[simsekgokhan]

Thanks @jfh-crim.
And the complete list here: Robomongo-Config-File-Guide

[tigercosmos]

Does it have supported Linux to customize preference yet?

[pierods]

Editing json file not working on Fedora.

[specter119]

config json will be correct back to default once open software again (when I use manjaro).
what's more I sync the the config of robo-3T with dropbox on multiple platforms.
"textFontPointSize": {"linux": ,"windows":, "mac":} will be better.