Customizing the Look & Feel and other GUI properties
Some parts of the QluMan GUI appearance may be customized. In particular you can select from four different themes, each of which provides a consistent look of the GUI elements. Additionaly you can modify fonts and their sizes, specific colors of some GUI elements as well as properties of the Firefox web-browser integration.
QluMan Preferences
In the Preferences dialog at , one is able to modify all customizable parts of the QluMan GUI Look & Feel. The tree on the left shows all the settings available for customization. Each QluMan component may have its specific settings, so the options available here depend on the components installed on a particular cluster.
To change a setting, select the component to be customized on the left, e.g. . In this example, one can change the fonts used for the Regular and Monospace fonts. To modify one of them, select it and click the Edit button. A font-selector dialog will then pop up in which you can preview and choose the new font. After confirming your selection by pressing OK, you also have to press Save to activate your choice. Undo and Reset To Defaults buttons are available to revert your modifications.
The same procedure is used to modify other properties. They are:
Choosing a theme
Starting from QluMan 14.2.0, ready-to-use themes are provided that ensure a consistent appearance of all the GUI elements. You can choose from one of the following four variants:
- Modern Dark
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A dark theme based on the Kvantum theme engine.
- Modern Light
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A Kvantum-based light theme.
- Classic
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Light theme based on the QtCurve style engine.
- Bare Qt
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Light theme that uses no style engine, hence has a standard Qt look&feel.
The Default is Modern Dark.
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Once you have saved your selection, the QluMan GUI has to be restarted to activate the new theme. |
Customizing fonts
The QluMan GUI uses two different fonts to display things, a regular and a mono-spaced one. You can customize both of them. The default fonts are DejaVu Sans, 10pt (regular) and DejaVu Sans Mono, 10pt (mono-spaced).
Customizing Slurm Dialogs
The QluMan GUI Slurm Overview, Accounting and Info dialogs use font and graph colors that can be customized in the corresponding sections of the preferences dialog. Additionally one is also able to modify the column height of the Job Management and More Information tables here.