Hi Will, For changing the scale factor on Pharo 12, the simplest option is to evaluate the following in a Playground:
World scaleFactor: 1.3. But, the fonts become ugly. On latest Pharo, the settings tools allow to change and the scaling with better results. Though I didn't test it. Noury On Mon, Sep 8, 2025 at 7:25 AM Will Senn via Pharo-users < pharo-users@lists.pharo.org> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm brand new to pharo. I'm hoping y'all can help with a couple of > beginner questions... > > 1) I'm running on debian 13 trixie. With Pharo 12, 13 or 14, the fonts > are very tiny on my 2560x1440 display. What's the best way to make menus > and text bigger. I tried a scale factor, but it looks ugly. If that's > the recommended solution, fine. I can live with it, but I want to do it > the right way. > > 2) The open url functions don't work. I get XPCOMGlueLoad errors: > > XPCOMGlueLoad error for file /usr/lib/firefox-esr/libmozgtk.so: > /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpango-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: > hb_ot_color_has_paint > Couldn't load XPCOM > > It seems like this is an incompatible library issue. Is there a way to > set another browser (I'm using Firefox) as the one pharo uses? I have > several including opera and chrome. > > Thanks, > > Will > -- Noury Bouraqadi
