Increasing the font size in the GUI/dialogue window

[steppenwolf]

Is there any way to increase the font size or scale up the size of the window that pops up when you're saving a graphic [https://www.nv5geospatialsoftware.com/docs/GraphicsWindowInterface.html]?

The font is tiny on a 4k display (see attached screengrab). I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.06.

[Chris Torrence]

Hi, I think you can fix this by adding a ".Xdefaults" file in your home directory.

I'm a bit surprised that the IDL widgets are so tiny, as normally we force everything to be 96 dots-per-inch, regardless of your screen resolution. But maybe things are different on that particular flavor of Ubuntu.

Anyway, in your home directory, create a file (if it doesn't already exist) called .Xdefaults. Inside the file put the following line:

Idl*fontList: lucidasanstypewriter-24

That font called "lucidasanstypewriter-24" may or may not be available on your system, and that size (24 point) might be too small or too big. You can get a list of the available fonts on your machine by using the "xlsfonts" command from a terminal.

Once you've edited the file, use the following command in the terminal to reload the file into Motif:

xrdb .Xdefaults

Then restart IDL and see if that fixes the issue.

Best of luck!

-Chris

NV5 IDL Team Lead

[Rohit Chhiber]

It's been a while since this post, but I wanted to come back and say that this worked well for me. Thanks!

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Rohit

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