[Lazarus] How to change default editor font *before* primary config ~/.lazarus is created?

[Mattias Gaertner]

Bernd <prof7bit at gmail.com> hat am 15. Oktober 2012 um 15:37 geschrieben:
> I'm making a new installer for Lazarus on Debian and Ubuntu because
> the existing ones in their repositories are just plain wrong and
> broken beyond repair.

Are you reinventing the wheel or do you use the deb scripts that are used for sf
packages?


> I got everything working smoothly now, the only
> remaining (minor) problem is to replace the default editor font
> "Courier New" with something more appropriate on a Linux desktop.
>
> Unfortunately Lazarus is ignoring /etc/lazarus/editoroptions.xml
> (according to strace it is opening the file but its contents do not
> seem to have any effect on the default font or any other editor
> setting I have tried.

The /etc/lazarus/editoroptions.xml is only copied if there is no
~/.lazarus/editoroptions.xml.


> Is this a bug? I think so!)

AFAIK it works.


> Where would be the
> proper place to patch the Lazarus sources, I grepped the Lazarus
> sources for "Courier New" but the only place that came up and made
> sense in this context was synedit.pp but I doubt its a good idea to
> simply patch the default font for SynEdit itself, I would rather avoid
> to patch anything that could potentially be linked into a user's
> application compiled with Lazarus.
>
> Where should I have a look to either fix this bug (ignoring secondary
> config file) or to properly patch the default font?


Mattias