I love using gedit but I do not see a way to make test bigger. Currently I use xrandr -s 1024x768 to help out. support for Ctrl + in gedit would rock.

I'm not sure that this is what you are looking for, but Kate has "enlarge font" and "shrink font" options on the "View" menu. It seems to be global (that is, it affects the window, not just selected text).

There do not seem to be keyboard shortcuts, though.

Gedit doesn't work that way. You want an editor that has rich text/document functionality like Abiword, LibreOffice Writer, Kwrite, etc.

Umm, the gedit I have installed recognizes ctrl+/ctrl- for changing the text size. It's right there in the view menu too. Unless something has changed recently. It doesn't seem to work with my keypad +/- keys though for some reason, only the ones on the main keyboard.

Or you could go into the settings and choose a bigger default font size.


Rich text/etc. are mark-up languages that encode formatting info inside the file itself. It has nothing to do with the zooming of the display of the program the OP is talking about. He just wants the program to display the text larger.

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Thanks I running Debian stable so everything on my system sill be a bit dated. I will build the current gedit from source to get ctrl+/ctrl- working.

Marking this as solved.