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greenjeans

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SOLVED! (kinda) syntax for yad to use --css=[string] properly?

So yad in it's man page has as one of it's options, a modifier to use css directly in creating a dialog.

--css=[string] , where string can be either a link to a css file, or css commands directly as the string.

But for the life of me I can't figure out the syntax it wants, and there's zero documentation to be found about it other than the one mention in the man page.

I have tried a lot of different combos, direct, quoted, curly brackets+conventional markup, etc. etc. and nothing seems to work. I'm sure it's something simple, but it's escaping me at the moment. I don't want to use an outboard css file for this, it's just one command I need to work, using the line-height property to put some space between lines of text in a paragraph.

Anybody have a clue?

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Re: SOLVED! (kinda) syntax for yad to use --css=[string] properly?

^ I think @sleekmason explained it in more detail here:
    https://forums.bunsenlabs.org/viewtopic … 17#p119117

Example of where/how to place GTK_THEME="alt-dialog" in the script.

GTK_THEME="alt-dialog" \
yad --title "Conky" --button=gtk-close:1 --form --center --width=230 \

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Re: SOLVED! (kinda) syntax for yad to use --css=[string] properly?

^^ That's a great thread and a lovely way to change the dialog. But i'm not looking to add an outboard css file for yad, just need to change this one dialog a bit (and possibly others in the future) and was hoping someone knew the syntax for a simple inline bit of css just for that specific dialog.

I could split the paragraph sentences with newlines, but's that's overkill and would look bad for such a small paragraph.

Here's the dialog if that helps:

yad --form --fixed --center --window-icon=audio-speakers --borders=20 \
    --title="Vuu-do Stream Recorder" \
    --text="This utility will record the radio stream currently playing in Vuu-do Simple Music Player.\nIt will continue to record that particular stream even if you switch stations in the player.\nTo record a different stream, you must stop the current recording and close this app.\nRecordings are saved to ~/Music.\n" \
    --field="Recording Mode":CB 'Split and Name Tracks!One Long File' \
    --button="Start Recording:0" \
    --button="Cancel:1" \
    --width=400 --height=200 \
    --on-top

greenjeans

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Re: SOLVED! (kinda) syntax for yad to use --css=[string] properly?

Got it fixed, but not with inline css, pango worked though!

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Re: SOLVED! (kinda) syntax for yad to use --css=[string] properly?

(There's no guarantee that everything in the yad manual works as expected.)

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greenjeans

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Re: SOLVED! (kinda) syntax for yad to use --css=[string] properly?

(There's no guarantee that everything in the yad manual works as expected.)

For sure. And i'm no conky expert so I was and am still wondering if it can be made to work inline, seems like it would be a handy copy-pasta  when you're making a number of dialogs for something and just want to throw up some skeletons to start, rather than having to type in pango commands in every text section.