How to scale each individual app on the monitor with respect to DPI?

_galen · 04-01-2024, 01:21 AM

This a re-post from the beginner's section, sorry: I wasn't getting any answers there so I thought maybe it was because this is not really a beginner's question, perhaps... I'm a bit desperate for an answer to this one as I'm running out of time to choose between Windows and Linux before I have do a project with whichever OS I choose, and I won't have space nor time to consider changing OS's again for a long time thereafter. A negative to this question is probably going to be a deal-breaker for me as there are already a number of little inconveniences with Linux I've found that are making it hard to justify migrating from Windows.

======================================================================

Using Debian Gnome. I've managed to find a couple of different ways to globally scale the Desktop Environment to make everything bigger (other than just a binary %100 or %200)--an Extension called "Tweaks", and there's a Terminal Command for it also.

Most apps seem to either obey this scaling sensibly, like GIMP, or else their own GUI's are able to be scaled from within the app itself, like Blender.

But some apps, web-browsers included, follow the global scaling, but scale very awkwardly by it; I'm always needing to adjust the zoom when viewing different sites with Firefox, for example, after it has been scaled-up massively in accordance with the 1.8 global scaling I've applied, which global scaling is necessary as the Desktop-Environment GUI is just too small for me otherwise.

And then one app in particular--the Kate text-editor--doesn't seem to be able to scale at all. This one's a shame because otherwise Kate seems to be a very good text-editor; the GUI is just tiny though.

Most of what I found just googling about it sounded very foreign to me and I couldn't begin to make sense of any of it; but I remember someone saying something about editing the "config" file of each app, or something like that.

TB0ne · 04-01-2024, 08:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _galen

This a re-post from the beginner's section, sorry: I wasn't getting any answers there so I thought maybe it was because this is not really a beginner's question, perhaps... I'm a bit desperate for an answer to this one as I'm running out of time to choose between Windows and Linux before I have do a project with whichever OS I choose, and I won't have space nor time to consider changing OS's again for a long time thereafter. A negative to this question is probably going to be a deal-breaker for me as there are already a number of little inconveniences with Linux I've found that are making it hard to justify migrating from Windows.

======================================================================

Using Debian Gnome. I've managed to find a couple of different ways to globally scale the Desktop Environment to make everything bigger (other than just a binary %100 or %200)--an Extension called "Tweaks", and there's a Terminal Command for it also.

Most apps seem to either obey this scaling sensibly, like GIMP, or else their own GUI's are able to be scaled from within the app itself, like Blender.

But some apps, web-browsers included, follow the global scaling, but scale very awkwardly by it; I'm always needing to adjust the zoom when viewing different sites with Firefox, for example, after it has been scaled-up massively in accordance with the 1.8 global scaling I've applied, which global scaling is necessary as the Desktop-Environment GUI is just too small for me otherwise.

And then one app in particular--the Kate text-editor--doesn't seem to be able to scale at all. This one's a shame because otherwise Kate seems to be a very good text-editor; the GUI is just tiny though.

Most of what I found just googling about it sounded very foreign to me and I couldn't begin to make sense of any of it; but I remember someone saying something about editing the "config" file of each app, or something like that.

You got options, and seem to be ignoring them, along with the LQ Rules about posting multiple threads for the same question.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...pi-4175735532/

Again, either try KDE which is easier to configure, or configure each app to look however you want. Either spend time learning Linux or go back to Windows. Thread reported.