SettingsRef

public struct SettingsRef : SettingsProtocol, GWeakCapturing

GtkSettings provides a mechanism to share global settings between applications.

On the X window system, this sharing is realized by an XSettings manager that is usually part of the desktop environment, along with utilities that let the user change these settings.

On Wayland, the settings are obtained either via a settings portal, or by reading desktop settings from DConf.

In the absence of these sharing mechanisms, GTK reads default values for settings from settings.ini files in /etc/gtk-4.0, $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/gtk-4.0 and $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-4.0. These files must be valid key files (see GKeyFile), and have a section called Settings. Themes can also provide default values for settings by installing a settings.ini file next to their gtk.css file.

Applications can override system-wide settings by setting the property of the GtkSettings object with g_object_set(). This should be restricted to special cases though; GtkSettings are not meant as an application configuration facility.

There is one GtkSettings instance per display. It can be obtained with [funcGtk.Settings.get_for_display], but in many cases, it is more convenient to use [methodGtk.Widget.get_settings].

The SettingsRef type acts as a lightweight Swift reference to an underlying GtkSettings instance. It exposes methods that can operate on this data type through SettingsProtocol conformance. Use SettingsRef only as an unowned reference to an existing GtkSettings instance.

  • ptr
    Untyped pointer to the underlying `GtkSettings` instance.
    

    For type-safe access, use the generated, typed pointer settings_ptr property instead.

    Declaration

    Swift

    public let ptr: UnsafeMutableRawPointer!

Settings Class

  • Designated initialiser from the underlying C data type

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
    init(_ p: UnsafeMutablePointer<GtkSettings>)
  • Designated initialiser from a constant pointer to the underlying C data type

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
    init(_ p: UnsafePointer<GtkSettings>)
  • Conditional initialiser from an optional pointer to the underlying C data type

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
    init!(_ maybePointer: UnsafeMutablePointer<GtkSettings>?)
  • Conditional initialiser from an optional, non-mutable pointer to the underlying C data type

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
    init!(_ maybePointer: UnsafePointer<GtkSettings>?)
  • Conditional initialiser from an optional gpointer

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
    init!(gpointer g: gpointer?)
  • Conditional initialiser from an optional, non-mutable gconstpointer

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
    init!(gconstpointer g: gconstpointer?)
  • Reference intialiser for a related type that implements SettingsProtocol

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
    init<T>(_ other: T) where T : SettingsProtocol
  • This factory is syntactic sugar for setting weak pointers wrapped in GWeak<T>

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
    static func unowned<T>(_ other: T) -> SettingsRef where T : SettingsProtocol
  • Unsafe typed initialiser. Do not use unless you know the underlying data type the pointer points to conforms to SettingsProtocol.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
    init<T>(cPointer: UnsafeMutablePointer<T>)
  • Unsafe typed initialiser. Do not use unless you know the underlying data type the pointer points to conforms to SettingsProtocol.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
    init<T>(constPointer: UnsafePointer<T>)
  • Unsafe untyped initialiser. Do not use unless you know the underlying data type the pointer points to conforms to SettingsProtocol.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
    init(mutating raw: UnsafeRawPointer)
  • Unsafe untyped initialiser. Do not use unless you know the underlying data type the pointer points to conforms to SettingsProtocol.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
    init(raw: UnsafeMutableRawPointer)
  • Unsafe untyped initialiser. Do not use unless you know the underlying data type the pointer points to conforms to SettingsProtocol.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
    init(opaquePointer: OpaquePointer)
  • Gets the `GtkSettings` object for the default display, creating
    

    it if necessary.

    See [funcGtk.Settings.get_for_display].

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
    static func getDefault() -> SettingsRef!
  • Gets the GtkSettings object for display, creating it if necessary.

    Declaration

    Swift

    @inlinable
    static func getFor<DisplayT>(display: DisplayT) -> SettingsRef! where DisplayT : DisplayProtocol