I am using Leap 42.1 on a Thinkpad W541. It has a 3k Monitor. While I was able to set font sizes for the applications using systemsettings, Menu items and application menu are stuck at 10 points. I can use a magnifier and read the items, but that is not handy
There are several hints here, pointing out, it should be changeable either by qtconfig or systemsetting and also to run both as root. I tried all, no change and qtconfig does not run as root (don’t know why and after all, the problem should be changed on a per user base). In systemsettings, I could not find the relevant point to change the systemfont. Qtconfig lets me change the font size under the font tab the font size, I can save it, but there are no changes at all. If I run qtconfig again, all I see is font size back to 10 points.
I probably should mention, the install was an upgrade from 13.2. On another machine (x250, fresh install of Leap), I can change said system font via qtconfig. Thus, I guess it has something to do with the upgrade and/or permissions. But where?
Did you tried changing the dpi size in system settings?
There is an option to force the fonts DPI settings
in system settings-fonts.
I am assuming, you are using plasma desktop.:\
Did so (see first post), no change. Ran a few updates in the mean time. The result is this:
qtconfig
X Error: BadAtom (invalid Atom parameter) 5
Major opcode: 18 (X_ChangeProperty)
Resource id: 0x0
If I restart qtconfig afterwards, qtconfig’s font is altered - for the duration of the session and only qtconfig’s font, no menu or the K-menu stay at 10 points all the time. If I reboot, all back to as before: font 10 points for qtconfig. This sounds oddly like a permission thing to me. Only where, what to change?
Use systemsettings5 to configure the font sizes.
qtconfig only applies to Qt4 applications, and its settings are not applied when you login to Plasma5…
And be sure to really run systemsettings5 and not KDE4’s systemsettings. Type it into a Konsole or the Alt+F2 KRunner dialog.
Due to a mistake the KDE4 one is also called “Configure Desktop” (and not “Configure KDE4 Applications”) and might even hide the Plasma5 version.
If you want to get rid of KDE4’s systemsettings, uninstall the package kdebase4-workspace-addons.
Still relucant are firefox and xterm. So I tried kdesu systemsettings5, but kdesu seems unavailable. Inside an xterm:
su
systemsettings5
“Session bus not found
To circumvent this problem try the following command (with Linux and bash)
export $(dbus-launch)”
export $(dbus-launch)
systemsettings5
This helped getting Yast to be at the font I want it to be, but still not firefox’s menu and bookmark bar and also xterm stays at 10 Pt
kdesu is available. But that will run systemsettings5 as root and change root’s settings.
I hope you are not running firefox as root?
IOW, “kdesu systemsettings5” won’t help you.
Inside an xterm:
su
systemsettings5
"Session bus not found
To circumvent this problem try the following command (with Linux and bash)
export $(dbus-launch)"
export $(dbus-launch)
systemsettings5
You should use “su -”, not “su”, if you want to start GUI applications.
This helped getting Yast to be at the font I want it to be, but still not firefox’s menu and bookmark bar and also xterm stays at 10 Pt
Firefox should actually use the KDE settings if the KDE integration is installed.
But maybe try to change the GTK font in systemsettings5->Application Appearance->GTK.
Or have a look in Firefox’s settings, maybe there’s some setting that overrides that (see “about:settings” for all options).
