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LittleSandra

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[SOLVED] Possible to increase the font in Wayland applications?

Dear all

Often I find the fonts much too small in many applications. One that is really small is qbittorrent and rclone-browser. Those are close to impossible for read for me...

The Archwiki have this page https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#GDK_3_(GTK_3) but it is for X and not Wayland.

Does anyone know a prober or hacky way to increase the font in certain applications such as qbittorrent and rclone-browser?

Hugs,
Sandra

Last edited by LittleSandra (2024-01-19 20:52:01)

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Possible to increase the font in Wayland applications?

Those are both Qt applications so the linked GTK advice won't work anyway.

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/HiDPI#Qt_5

Which Wayland compositor (desktop) are you using?

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LittleSandra

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Re: [SOLVED] Possible to increase the font in Wayland applications?

Ok, I see.

I use Sway.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Possible to increase the font in Wayland applications?

Me too

I use /etc/environment to export variables to sway.

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LittleSandra

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Re: [SOLVED] Possible to increase the font in Wayland applications?

Nice

Is there a way to test it before putting it into /etc/environment ?

If I do

export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SCALE_FACTOR=2
export QT_ENABLE_HIGHDPI_SCALING=2
rclone-brower

then nothing have changed.

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: [SOLVED] Possible to increase the font in Wayland applications?

QT_FONT_DPI=150 qbittorrent

Works for me

I don't have rclone-browser installed though, sorry.

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LittleSandra

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Re: [SOLVED] Possible to increase the font in Wayland applications?

WOW! That is incredible!! It works! Thanks so much