On 2021-09-13 00:11:48 Simon Lees wrote:
|On 9/13/21 14:01, J Leslie Turriff wrote: |> On 2021-09-11 20:58:37 Felix Miata wrote: |>> |Carl Spitzer composed on 2021-09-11 21:01 (UTC-0400): |>> |> Andrei Verovski wrote: |>> |>> Run qt5ct as superuser, reconfigured to use 14pt fonts, no changes |>> |>> in YaST, sorry. |>> |>> Checked MATE and KDE settings, all fonts 14 pt. |>> |>> PS. I use MATE desktop, it shows everything correctly. |>> |> |>> |> My test also did not result in change in yast under Mate. |>> |> So what is next is this one of those reboot times as in the Suse10.0 |>> |> past?? |>> | |>> |I never install Mate in openSUSE. I just opened an IceWM session in |>> | TW. In Xterm I opened YaST2 as non-root user to find expected size |>> | fonts. I closed YaST2 and opened qt5ct as non-root user, changed |>> | fonts from 12 to 16 for both settings, closed qt5ct, and finally |>> | opened YaST2 again to find its main pane fonts much larger, as |>> | expected, "some" because Software -> Media Check is all that shows up |>> | in Control Center here as non-root. The "YaST Control Center" title |>> | font size was not affected, which I think has been a bug for many |>> | many moons. |> |> I'm using TDE for my desktop, and don't have Plasma installed. I |> installed qt5ct to change this setting, but it doesn't like that theme |> environment variable |> |> | QT_QPA_PLATFORM=qt5ct |> |> isn't installed, and though it saves the new settings, they don't take |> effect. I suppose that there are other requirements that might come up |> once I fix this; how can I install the least amount of Plasma to make |> this work? | |Generally yast runs as root, so to change its appearance whatever |changes you make you need to do for the root user. There is a high |chance you also need to export that environment variable as root as |well, I don't remember if any / which xdg-su implementations pass |environment variables through to the running application for many non |gnome / kde desktops yast is normally launched with su -c | "/usr/sbin/yast2"
Well, of course I ran qt5ct as root. Leslie -- Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64