Is There A Way To Change Font Size of Pop-Up Menus on XFCE?

Post by Dr. Noah Bodie
When I right click on the desktop I get a menu that has small print...
is there a way to make the text large enough to read?
KDE5 made it easy to change fonts but XFCE makes it difficult.

You can change default font size by going to
Menu-->Settings-->Appearance-->Fonts
But, that changes the font size on everything.
I'm not sure if there is a way to change the
font size for the popup menu only.

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Dr. Noah Bodie

2020-04-14 16:11:53 UTC

That did it for the pop-up menu, so I'm good! :-D
thnx!

Dr. Noah Bodie

2020-04-25 19:17:36 UTC

I found the "QT5 Setting" under "Settings" which greatly helps with
other font's. :-D

Big Al

2020-04-25 22:33:38 UTC

I found the "QT5 Setting" under "Settings" which greatly helps with other font's. :-D

I just started using Mint Cinnamon 19.3 and was disappointed in the small fonts too. Then I stumbled onto a forum message talking about
qt5ct. I ran it and fixed alllll of my issues now.

Love it!

Dr. Noah Bodie

2020-04-26 13:02:53 UTC

I found the "QT5 Setting" under "Settings" which greatly helps with other font's. :-D

I just started using Mint Cinnamon 19.3 and was disappointed in the
small fonts too. Then I stumbled onto a forum message talking about
qt5ct. I ran it and fixed alllll of my issues now.
Love it!

in recent years it's become harder to make adjustments that used to be
very simple. users shouldn't have to change multiple settings to get the
font size right.

Big Al

2020-04-26 14:08:38 UTC

I found the "QT5 Setting" under "Settings" which greatly helps with other font's. :-D

I just started using Mint Cinnamon 19.3 and was disappointed in the
small fonts too. Then I stumbled onto a forum message talking about
qt5ct. I ran it and fixed alllll of my issues now.
Love it!

in recent years it's become harder to make adjustments that used to be very simple. users shouldn't have to change multiple settings to get
the font size right.

Someone gave an explanation to me about my KDE games and their fonts. They said running KDE apps on cinnamon is mixing DEs. It can be done
but it's tricky. And now I have to have a separate util to adjust that interface. (Or so I'm paraphrasing it).

I can kinda get his jist, but these kde games come in synaptic so cinnamon should be able to handle it right, but I guess that what Qt5
settings is for.

You comment about users having to change several settings is akin to the complaint in Windows, "things are scattered".

Al

dyrmak

2020-04-26 14:55:29 UTC

En 28 lignes Dr. Noah Bodie a écrit

I found the "QT5 Setting" under "Settings" which greatly helps with other font's. :-D

I just started using Mint Cinnamon 19.3 and was disappointed in the
small fonts too. Then I stumbled onto a forum message talking about
qt5ct. I ran it and fixed alllll of my issues now.
Love it!

in recent years it's become harder to make adjustments that used to be
very simple. users shouldn't have to change multiple settings to get the
font size right.

I am pretty sure that nobody likes the narrowness of the scroll bar
in Firefox, if somebody likes it and I am curious to know why !

dyrmak

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Johnny

2020-04-26 15:12:39 UTC

On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 14:55:29 +0000 (UTC)

Post by dyrmak
En 28 lignes Dr. Noah Bodie a écrit

Post by Dr. Noah Bodie
I found the "QT5 Setting" under "Settings" which greatly helps
with other font's. :-D

I just started using Mint Cinnamon 19.3 and was disappointed in the
small fonts too. Then I stumbled onto a forum message talking
about qt5ct. I ran it and fixed alllll of my issues now.
Love it!

in recent years it's become harder to make adjustments that used to
be very simple. users shouldn't have to change multiple settings to
get the font size right.

I am pretty sure that nobody likes the narrowness of the scroll bar
in Firefox, if somebody likes it and I am curious to know why !
dyrmak

I recently started using Waterfox for privacy. I like it better than
Firefox, and it has the wide scroll bar.

https://www.waterfox.net/

Big Al

2020-04-26 21:48:17 UTC

Post by dyrmak
En 28 lignes Dr. Noah Bodie a écrit

I found the "QT5 Setting" under "Settings" which greatly helps with other font's. :-D

I just started using Mint Cinnamon 19.3 and was disappointed in the
small fonts too. Then I stumbled onto a forum message talking about
qt5ct. I ran it and fixed alllll of my issues now.
Love it!

in recent years it's become harder to make adjustments that used to be
very simple. users shouldn't have to change multiple settings to get the
font size right.

I am pretty sure that nobody likes the narrowness of the scroll bar
in Firefox, if somebody likes it and I am curious to know why !
dyrmak

I like mine. On Mint 19.3 you can change the width of the scroll bar. I set mine to 12px. Firefox seems to inherit cinnamon setting like
this. Looks good to me.
Al

Dr. Noah Bodie

2020-05-05 10:37:47 UTC

Post by Big Al
I like mine. On Mint 19.3 you can change the width of the scroll bar.
I set mine to 12px. Firefox seems to inherit cinnamon setting like
this. Looks good to me.
Al

How did you make that change? I'd like to try it...

D***@decadence.org

2020-04-26 15:03:59 UTC

Post by Dr. Noah Bodie
When I right click on the desktop I get a menu that has small
print... is there a way to make the text large enough to read?
KDE5 made it easy to change fonts but XFCE makes it difficult.

I found the "QT5 Setting" under "Settings" which greatly helps with other font's. :-D

I just started using Mint Cinnamon 19.3 and was disappointed in
the small fonts too. Then I stumbled onto a forum message
talking about qt5ct. I ran it and fixed alllll of my issues now.
Love it!

in recent years it's become harder to make adjustments that used
to be very simple. users shouldn't have to change multiple
settings to get the font size right.

You can blame high pixel count aray sizes for that. 4K threw a
monkey wrench into it, because the interfaces never addressed it
before so developers have to re-code the entire window manager
paradigm to include FOOL control over window construction and nobody
wants to undertake the required FOOL re-write.

Something like that. I remember pixel level adjustability on
window borders and headers and pretty much everything, but where that
went or the "FOOL control" paradigm that it was developed under, but
I miss it.

Mike Easter

2020-04-26 21:38:14 UTC

I found the "QT5 Setting" under "Settings" which greatly helps with other font's. :-D

I just started using Mint Cinnamon 19.3 and was disappointed in the
small fonts too. Then I stumbled onto a forum message talking about
qt5ct. I ran it and fixed alllll of my issues now.

The business about qt5ct/QT5 Settings is actually FOR non-Qt DEs & WMs.

Post by Big Al
This utility allows users to configure Qt5 settings (theme, font,
icons, etc.) under DE/WM without Qt integration.
Qt5ct will only be active on environments other than Plasma.
Default configuration have switch to disable running on Plasma.
Qt5ct could use qt5 gtk theme, KDE breeze theme, the fusion theme,
QtCurve theme and many more. Each style could be customized further
by changing the color schema.

That is, it was *made for* the kinds of 'visual' problems which arise
using apps cross-toolkit.

My Mint 19.3 Cinnamon doesn't have any 'kde' app/s that I know of, but
qt5ct is installed by default and in the default menu as Qt5 Settings.

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Mike Easter

Big Al

2020-04-26 21:51:50 UTC

Post by Mike Easter

I found the "QT5 Setting" under "Settings" which greatly helps with other font's. :-D

I just started using Mint Cinnamon 19.3 and was disappointed in the small fonts too. Then I stumbled onto a forum message talking about
qt5ct. I ran it and fixed alllll of my issues now.

The business about qt5ct/QT5 Settings is actually FOR non-Qt DEs & WMs.

This utility allows users to configure Qt5 settings (theme, font,
icons, etc.) under DE/WM without Qt integration.
Qt5ct will only be active on environments other than Plasma.
Default configuration have switch to disable running on Plasma.
Qt5ct could use qt5 gtk theme, KDE breeze theme, the fusion theme,
QtCurve theme and many more. Each style could be customized further
by changing the color schema.

That is, it was *made for* the kinds of 'visual' problems which arise using apps cross-toolkit.
My Mint 19.3 Cinnamon doesn't have any 'kde' app/s that I know of, but qt5ct is installed by default and in the default menu as Qt5 Settings.

Have you loaded any solitaire games? Kmahjongg, kpat etc? They all are kde

Mike Easter

2020-04-26 22:08:26 UTC

Have you loaded any solitaire games? Kmahjongg, kpat etc? They all are
kde

My only solitaire game which I installed (was not in the default Cinn
19.3) is AisleRiot, which is actually a collection of 80 different
solitaire card games of which I've only played the Klondike v.

It is Gnome/gtk based. I like that game.

When I watch old Gunsmoke re-runs, I think Kitty Russell plays Klondike
when she's just sitting around when the Long Branch is quiet and not
eating a hard-boiled egg :-)

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Mike Easter

Edmund

2020-04-27 06:58:36 UTC

I found the "QT5 Setting" under "Settings" which greatly helps with
other font's. :-D

Thank you Sir!
Never thought there where more font settings hidden somewhere.

Edmund

Edmund

2020-07-07 12:09:43 UTC

I found the "QT5 Setting" under "Settings" which greatly helps with
other font's. :-D

Where did you find that, I don't have a QT5 under my settings

Edmund

Andrei Z.

2020-07-07 12:57:59 UTC

I found the "QT5 Setting" under "Settings" which greatly helps with
other font's. :-D

Where did you find that, I don't have a QT5 under my settings
Edmund

apt policy qt5ct
qt5ct:
Installed: 0.34-1build2

Mint 19.3 Cinnamon: click Menu, type qt...

Edmund

2020-07-07 13:03:42 UTC

Post by Andrei Z.

I found the "QT5 Setting" under "Settings" which greatly helps with
other font's. :-D

Where did you find that, I don't have a QT5 under my settings
Edmund

apt policy qt5ct
Installed: 0.34-1build2
Mint 19.3 Cinnamon: click Menu, type qt...

Thanks I found it

Edmund

Big Al

2020-07-07 13:16:26 UTC

I found the "QT5 Setting" under "Settings" which greatly helps with other font's. :-D

Where did you find that, I don't have a QT5 under my settings
Edmund

apt policy qt5ct
Installed: 0.34-1build2
Mint 19.3 Cinnamon: click Menu, type qt...

Thanks I found it
Edmund

I'm on Cinnamon but I found it too by some off reference while reading other web pages. It fixed a lot of display on my system too.

wicklowham

2020-07-07 13:33:18 UTC

I found the "QT5 Setting" under "Settings" which greatly helps with
other font's. :-D

Where did you find that, I don't have a QT5 under my settings
Edmund

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Edmund

2020-07-07 21:00:12 UTC

Post by wicklowham