all gtk apps HUGE [SOLVED]

albright · Posted: Thu Jun 25, 2015 6:35 pm Post subject: all gtk apps HUGE [SOLVED]

I am running KDE 5 and recently (not sure which update caused it) all
my gtk apps (firefox, thunderbird, gimp, etc) render with huge UI fonts
and icons. There content is also way too big.

This is because I have set kde "force fonts DPI" to 157 (correct for
my screen). On a new user with DPI set to 96 the gtk apps look OK.

There are workarounds for some apps but they are highly unsatisfactory.

I wonder if anyone knows a fix for this.
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natrix · Guru Joined: 23 Aug 2013 Posts: 556

Install "kde-plasma/kde-gtk-config" and check the configuration in systemsettings5, or look the file ".gtkrc-2.0" in your HOME

franzf · Advocate Joined: 29 Mar 2005 Posts: 4565

To be more precise: adjust the gtk-font-name key in your ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and ~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini for gtk3.
I have set it to gtk-font-name="DejaVu Sans Book 8" in both, I run 118 DPI and everything looks ok.

albright · Posted: Fri Jun 26, 2015 11:12 am Post subject:

VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

You could just check the difference in matching for the font with 'fc-match -s '...
Well, that is unless it's something pango/Qt specific...