Very small font on Ubuntu
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@lfisk said in Very small font on Ubuntu:
@JoelYoung I'm running Debian 12 with Gnome desktop... Not sure if you can make use of the Gnome Tweak Tool or not but it makes System font adjustment a whole lot easier along with Scaling and Hinting:
7 Ways to Customize Your Linux Desktop With GNOME Tweaks Tool
Thanks. I did play around with that, but what I found is that while it can improve Vivaldi, it also affects every other browser, app and system fonts & icons.
Everything changes in relation to the defaults, so something that looked pretty good now doesn't look good. -
/edited: I wrote some things about scaling again but you know what, everything's really bad with Vivaldi's monstrous menu size on top of everything now. What a mess.
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@npro said in Very small font on Ubuntu:
@JoelYoung said in Very small font on Ubuntu:
I just tried fractional scaling in the Ubuntu settings, but the choices are limited. It goes from 100% (default) to 125%, which makes everything larger but less sharp. They could use a 110% setting, which would probably be fine.
Having a hard time finding exactly how to actually change DPI settings anywhere online.
One thing I noticed: On my 17" Windows laptop the resolution is 1600x900 default, which is just right.
The Ubuntu laptop, also 17", defaults to 1920x1080, which of course affects the size of everything.If I change it to 1600x900, everything is much better size-wise, but could use a little scaling down - but not by much.
But maybe I'll just have to get used to it.
Or maybe you could try another Ubuntu flavor like Kubuntu, which has more "sane" defaults, scaling steps of 5% and extra options to set just the font dpi.
In the latest KDE Plasma version (6, not availabe in Kubuntu yet) which uses Wayland as the display protocol you can set the scaling <100% (though you can't set the font dpi).You could take a small "online-drive" from here and see if it suits you.
Looking at Kubuntu, and I'm kinda liking it.