Is it possible to change wine fonts by bash script?

[Bamm]

Hi, I am aware that the wine fonts can be changed manually via the winecfg dialog. My question is, can the fonts used in a prefix be changed via a command line? If not, is it possible to write a script (bash, perl, etc.) that will do this? Thanks for any answers.

[leniviy]

Such settings are usually stored in registry. Change some font settings in winecfg and compare registry before and after. Then write a *.reg file for your needs and feed it to wine regedit or wine reg in your script.

[leniviy]

For example,

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REGEDIT4

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Desktop\WindowMetrics]
"StatusFont"=hex:f8,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,00,\
  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,22,41,00,72,00,69,00,61,00,6c,00,20,00,42,00,6c,00,61,\
  00,63,00,6b,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,\
  00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00

changes the setting "ToolTip Text" Font to Arial Black.
This font will be used in the status bar of regedit.

[Bamm]

Thanks leniviy!

I've been searching the registry for this in vain. Thanks to you I finally found the key. What I did in the past was to set the font to some strangely named font and then search it in the registry, but the search always gave no results. Now I now why - it's encoded in ASCII!

I also like your tip about comparing the registry before and after. Why didn't I think of that? It's so simple. Haha!

Thanks again. Solved.

[vitamin]

Now I now why - it's encoded in ASCII!

Except it doesn't. That key is a binary data of specific format.

[Bamm]

Unfortunately it turns out my problem isn't solved. This method did not allow me to change the font to a specified font by script, only to a predetermined font. What I was trying to do was read the font from gconf and import it into a wine prefix.

[leniviy]

printf %s "Arial Black" | hexdump -e '1/1 "%02x,00,"'

But the correct way is to write a winelib program that uses both gconf and windows registry API

[Bamm]

Thanks leniviy!

[vitamin]

But the correct way is to write a winelib program that uses both gconf and windows registry API

Don't really have to write a winelib app. Just something that can create a LOGFONTW structure and print it in a format suitable for regedit.

[Bamm]

leniviy, the output of the hexdump is much shorter than the registry entry. do i need to add anything else?

[Bamm]

Is there a utility that already does this which I can just call?

[leniviy]

As vitamin said, this registry entry represents the LOGFONTW structure.

You can hardcode the beginning part:

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"f8,ff,ff,ff,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,90,01,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,00,22,"

in your script. It contains font properties like size and charset. They will probably be the same for different fonts.
Font name is in the end of the structure and has the length 64 bytes (32 characters). You should pad it with zeros using -n option of hexdump:

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printf '%s\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0' "Arial Black" | hexdump -v -n 32 -e '1/1 "%02x,00,"' ; echo

P.S. In my previous post I forgot the important '-v' option for hexdump

[Bamm]

Thanks so much for the explanation! I understand now and I can do the rest. Thanks again leniviy and vitamin for taking time to answer my questions.

[lmn40227]

Thanks leniviy!

i'm looking for it long time..

[bantayso02]

thanks a lots Leniviy.
You are awesome