Will,
Thanks for responding.
Your
suggestion works great but, as you suggest, only works on ttys. I'm
using Window Maker and want to change EVERY font size it displays. I
haven't figured out how to tell Wayland (KDE) to use the whole screen so
that option is out at the moment. The WM config tool does fine (sort
of) but not on the fonts on the top few lines of browsers and things
like "save file" menus. This system is a VivoBook 16 running Fedora 42
and has a phenomenal monitor but the fonts the system just chooses
REALLY SMALL FONTS. Chrome for example has fonts that are so small that I
can't read them, even with glasses and/or a magnifying glass.
I did find a setting that seems to affect all qt based applications.
export QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.45
I'm willing to run commands to describe the monitor but don't know which one(s) would be useful.
Thanks again for your response,
George...
On Thursday, June 5, 2025 at 03:12:47 PM PDT, Will McDonald <wmcdonald@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 at 21:40, George R Goffe via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I prefer to start "x" manually and have /etc/inittab set to run level 3 (multi user).When I boot this system, the console fonts are VERY SMALL... to the point of unreadable... even with glasses. I have specified the boot parameter "ask=791" which sets the first part of the fonts but when the system continues and does a modeset(?), the fonts revert to REALLY SMALL. Personally, 791 isn't large enough.How can I get the fonts to be bigger?
It's
quick-and-dirty but once logged in to the TTY you can do `setfont -d`
to double the default font size. That's just about usable for me on a
14" display Lenovo X1 at 3840x2400.
I'm sure there's a more canonical way to do this, or to persist it based on a quick skim of:
solar24x32.psfu.gz is pretty readable at that 3840 res on a 14" HDPI display. Not the prettiest, but tolerable.
On Thursday, June 5, 2025 at 03:12:47 PM PDT, Will McDonald <wmcdonald@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jun 2025 at 21:40, George R Goffe via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I prefer to start "x" manually and have /etc/inittab set to run level 3 (multi user).When I boot this system, the console fonts are VERY SMALL... to the point of unreadable... even with glasses. I have specified the boot parameter "ask=791" which sets the first part of the fonts but when the system continues and does a modeset(?), the fonts revert to REALLY SMALL. Personally, 791 isn't large enough.How can I get the fonts to be bigger?
It's quick-and-dirty but once logged in to the TTY you can do `setfont -d` to double the default font size. That's just about usable for me on a 14" display Lenovo X1 at 3840x2400.
I'm sure there's a more canonical way to do this, or to persist it based on a quick skim of:
solar24x32.psfu.gz is pretty readable at that 3840 res on a 14" HDPI display. Not the prettiest, but tolerable.
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