Subject: How to change size of system font(s)?

From: Richard Owlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 07:52:26 -0500

The default font in Squeeze(Gnome2) and Jessie(Mate) is too small!
Gedit and Pluma allow changing from default size of "10"[units 
not specified]. I find setting to 14 or larger much more legible 
on my laptop.

Other programs, e.g. Synaptic, give no option to chose an 
acceptable font size.

Is there any way to force a minimum font size system wide?
Can it be preseeded on installation?

TIA

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From: Felix Miata <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 06:11:47 -0400

> not specified]. I find setting to 14 or larger much more legible

Note that DEs, document creation and editing apps (e.g. LibreOffice), and 
sizes for printing are almost without exception sized in units called points, 
appreviated as pt. In printing, pt units are an unambiguous physical size. On 
computer screens in most contexts they are a logical size. The primary 
context where the size of a pt is most ambiguous is WRT text within a modern 
web browser viewport, where a pt equates to a px unit, a size measured in 
degrees rather than height and width.

When Xorg is configured so that its logical pixel density matches the 
screen's physical pixel density, then the pt unit becomes a physical size 
that matches the size printed.

Configuring Xorg to a particular density involves use of xrandr in a startup 
script, or DisplaySize within /etc/X11/xorg.con*. For Gnome/GTK apps to obey 
a particular DPI may require employing the Xft.dpi ENVAR.
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From: Brian <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:43:15 +0100

On Mon 12 Sep 2016 at 07:52:26 -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:

> Gedit and Pluma allow changing from default size of "10"[units not
> specified]. I find setting to 14 or larger much more legible on my laptop.
> 
> Other programs, e.g. Synaptic, give no option to chose an acceptable font
> size.
> 

>From memory you have to put something in a .gtkrc file. A seach for
"gtkrc font" at

  https://lists.debian.org/search.html

could lead you somewhere. Here is an example post:

  https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/07/msg00047.html

> Can it be preseeded on installation?

Use a late_command to copy a working file somewhere; $HOME? /etc?

-- 
Brian.

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From: Lisi Reisz <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 14:07:21 +0100

> Can it be preseeded on installation?

It is usually settable in the DE, it certainly is in TDE, and then it can be 
set for the VT.  Some applications, e.g. Google-Chrome, ignore the system 
settings and have to be set individually.

10 is the point size.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography)

Lisi

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From: Richard Owlett <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2016 08:58:40 -0500

On 9/12/2016 8:07 AM, Lisi Reisz wrote:
> It is usually settable in the DE,

DUHH [with implied head slap ;] Thought I had looked. If I had I 
didn't remember.

>  it certainly is in TDE, and then it can be