Setting default configuration for Jupyter QtConsole

Question

I have Jupyter QtConsole installed in Ubuntu 16.04. How can I set default configuration like font family, size and initial imports?

Nephron

Answer 1

The docs on configuration options for jupyter will be very helpful here.

In short, open ~/.jupyter/jupyter_qtconsole_config.py in your favorite text editor and find your options of interest.

• Font family : c.ConsoleWidget.font_family
• Font size : c.ConsoleWidget.font_size

Startup scripts and initial imports will be a little more complicated since those are properties of the ipython kernel, which will need to be set in your ipython config. In ~/.ipython/profile_default/ipython_kernel_config.py,

• Initial imports : c.InteractiveShellApp.exec_lines = ['import numpy as np','import pandas as pd']

Violetvioleta

In ~/.jupyter there no file named 'jupyter_qtconsole_config.py'. I also presume 'c' (as in c.ConsoleWidget.font_family' is a class. How do I get c? – Nephron

If it doesn't exist, just run touch ~/.jupyter/jupyter_qtconsole_config.py. "c" and other config classes will be loaded as globals when you first start up qtconsole, so you shouldn't need to worry about it. – Violetvioleta

To generate default configuration, you can also run jupyter qtconsole --generate-config in terminal. ~/.jupyter/jupyter_qtconsole_config.pywill be generated with a lot default settings. – Sinistrous

@Sinistrous - The comment is much worth posting as an answer. – Russian