Once you open the file in the text editor, you should be able to do a CTRL-a to select all text and then go to the preferences and change the font size.
Save. Vernon On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 5:29 PM Ben Koenig <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 2/3/21 4:21 PM, Michael Barnes wrote: > > I have a couple short text files of quick reference info with links on > the > > desktop of a Raspberry Pi. When I need my memory refreshed, I just double > > click the icon and it opens the file in the text editor. Since it is a > > small 7" screen, I'd like this to open in a large font making it easier > to > > see. I don't know if there is a setting someplace or a switch I can add > to > > the launcher to do this. > > Sometimes this can be accomplished via environment variables. I'm not > aware of any that can influence font sizes but I know that your problem > is typically identified as a "High DPI" issue and dealt with slightly > differently. If your text editor is Qt5 based, you can use a few > different variables to tell the app that the display is high DPI, and it > will scale everything accordingly. > > > QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR > > QT_SCALE_FACTOR > > > Using kwrite as an example > > QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2 kwrite reference.txt > > > Will result in kwrite rendering twice as large as normal. This means > font sizes are increased as well. I'm sure GTK has an equivalent option > I just don't know what it is. > > > > > Ideas appreciated. > > > > Michael > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
