Q: How to Increase Font Size in YaST
Hi, I have 4k 32" display and would like to increase font size in YaST, because all letters are too small. I changed font size for root with: kdesu kcmshell5 kcm_fonts Unfortunately, nothing changed in YaST. How to fix this? Thanks in advance. Andrei
Andrei Verovski composed on 2021-09-10 21:39 (UTC+0300):
I have 4k 32" display and would like to increase font size in YaST, because all letters are too small.
I changed font size for root with: kdesu kcmshell5 kcm_fonts
Unfortunately, nothing changed in YaST. How to fix this?
qt5ct -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
Hi, 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. On 9/11/21 00:01, Felix Miata wrote:
Andrei Verovski composed on 2021-09-10 21:39 (UTC+0300):
I have 4k 32" display and would like to increase font size in YaST, because all letters are too small. I changed font size for root with: kdesu kcmshell5 kcm_fonts Unfortunately, nothing changed in YaST. How to fix this?
qt5ct
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??
CWSIV
On Sat, Sep 11, 2021 at 3:07 AM Andrei Verovski
Hi,
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.
On 9/11/21 00:01, Felix Miata wrote:
Andrei Verovski composed on 2021-09-10 21:39 (UTC+0300):
I have 4k 32" display and would like to increase font size in YaST, because all letters are too small. I changed font size for root with: kdesu kcmshell5 kcm_fonts Unfortunately, nothing changed in YaST. How to fix this?
qt5ct
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. -- Evolution as taught in public schools is, like religion, based on faith, not based on science. Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata
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? Leslie -- Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64
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" -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
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
On 9/13/21 15:01, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
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.
Yeah but if the env variable is also not set as root whatever you change will be ignored. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B
On 2021-09-13 00:39:14 Simon Lees wrote:
|On 9/13/21 15:01, J Leslie Turriff wrote: |> 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. | |Yeah but if the env variable is also not set as root whatever you change |will be ignored.
Well, in any case, I logged out/in and set the variable (as root), which made things WORSE: |● qt5ct& |qt.qpa.plugin: Could not find the Qt platform plugin "qt5ct" in "" | This application failed to start because no Qt platform plugin could be initialized. Reinstalling the application may fix this problem. | | Available platform plugins are: eglfs, linuxfb, minimal, minimalegl, offscreen, vnc, xcb. | | [1]+ Aborted (core dumped) qt5ct I'm not sure what all that means, but I tried setting | QT_QPA_PLATFORM= and now it works! The complaint in qt5ct has even gone away. How strange. Anyway, I'll just set it empty in my (root) .bashrc and I think I'm good. Leslie -- Distribution: openSUSE Leap 15.3 x86_64
On 13/09/2021 07.31, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
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:
|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.
You could try login as root to the desktop. :-} -- Cheers / Saludos, Carlos E. R. (from oS Leap 15.2 x86_64 (Minas Tirith))
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On 9/12/21 07:34, Masaru Nomiya wrote: Hi, I use Leap 15.3. So this is not fixable for the time being, or your tip will work anyway?
First of all, you are not using Leap 15.3, ar you? That is, on Leap 15.3, it has nothing to do.
In my case, I get;
# xdpyinfo | grep -B 2 resolution screen #0: dimensions: 3840x2160 pixels (602x341 millimeters) resolution: 162x161 dots per inch
Anyway, make the file /root/.Xrsouces with;
Xft.dpi: 161
then do;
# xrdb ~/.Xresouces
When you get the satisfied font size, make /root/.bashrc with;
xrdb ~/.Xresouces
Regards.
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