https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101646
--- Comment #87 from [email protected] --- to answer Heiko Tietze's question: I was thinking of SMPlayer and Firefox, and Vivaldi in particular at the time. To your point, those seem to be very rare exceptions, most GUI apps I've found don't provide this feature. Most GUI apps are wrong. The solution for me (and hopefully any other arch users on DWM struggling with this) was to add this to my ~/.xinitrc file xrandr --output eDP-1 --scale 0.80x0.80 & To be clear, when I say "this feature", specifically I'm talking about the ability to do something like this: view > options > UI scaling > [ there's an input field where you can type a percentage ], you type 150%, and the font size of the menu "file, edit, tools, etc..." increases. I'm using arch linux with Suckless DWM (dynamic window manager) as my window manager. I understand my distro and window manager of choice aren't plug-n-play beginner-friendly, but oh my god, while i was troubleshooting this, it would have been so nice to be able to go from libreoffice, view > options > ui scaling > 150%. Libreoffice was painful to use for weeks and weeks until I fixed this issue. Maybe I'm a slow learner, but I was struggling with editing (in vain) random gtk and qt files and doing dozens of internet searches until I finally learned I could scale everything with xrandr. As to Caolán's comment that having this feature "confuses people looking for hidpi settings", I can tell you that for me and anyone else struggling with this, it can sometimes be so much more confusing to "fix the entire graphical environment" than it would have been to go view > options > ui scaling > 150% Fixing graphical environment scaling issues might not always be painless on a Ubuntu/Gnome or Mint/Cinnamon either. When people are struggling to fix their ui scaling issues, maybe it would be nice for them to be able to lean on libreoffice as one of the few apps they can use without squinting their eyes until they get the root problem fixed!! Even without the "it confuses people for this feature to exist" objection, this feature clearly has other very valid use cases. For accessibility, having more user-customization, allowing the user to more easily control their own consumption of the app, seems far more accessible to me than forcing them to fix 'font too small' by changing settings for their entire graphical environment. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
