Font sizes for menu and other items

[George R Goffe]

Howdy,

I have been using WindowMaker for some time now but AM NO EXPERT.

I'm somewhat sight challenged and find that parts of the Window Maker work space are using EXTREMELY small fonts.

Can someone give me a clue as to how to make the fonts larger please?

Best regards and THANKS for the WAY COOL CODE!

George...

[Kostas Michalopoulos]

On 4/19/25 3:51 PM, 'George R Goffe' via Window Maker Users wrote:
> I'm somewhat sight challenged and find that parts of the Window Maker work space are using EXTREMELY small fonts.
>
> Can someone give me a clue as to how to make the fonts larger please?

The Window Maker preferences application (should run if you double click
the Window Maker icon in the dock or run the `WPrefs` application from
the Run dialog or a terminal) has a section for fonts (the one with the
yellow F letter near the end of the section icons at the top side of the
window).

You can use the choice box to pick which part of the UI you want to set
a font for. The default would be "Window Title" but you can pick others
(e.g. System Font should set the font for most of the UI). Pick a font
(note that you may want to pick the font name, style *and* size for it
to be used), press Save and should be done (you may need to have to
restart Window Maker for the settings to apply).

Note though that some dialogs (e.g. the Attributes dialog) seem to have
hardcoded sizes and if you pick a very large font (e.g. 24 points) the
text will appear clipped.

[George Goffe]

Thanks for the pointer to the configurator. I have done this already but the top 3 "bars" at the top of the browser and some browser menus are still way too small.

Am I missing something? This is a Fedora 42 system.

Best regards,

George...

[Kostas Michalopoulos]

On 4/25/25 9:24 AM, George Goffe wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer to the configurator. I have done this already but
> the top 3 "bars" at the top of the browser and some browser menus are
> still way too small.
>
> Am I missing something? This is a Fedora 42 system.

I am not sure what you refer to with "browser". Can you post a
screenshot to imgur or somewhere like that and paste the URL?

[Stevan Netto]

Hi George,

Window Maker preferences will set only the window manager, as far as I'm aware.

You will probably have to launch GTK settings if your web browser is based on it, like Firefox.

Apparently Chrome is now based on their own API called Aura, which I'm unsure if it will follow GTKs configuration or if it has its own.

For application based on KDE, you'll also have to adjust the preferences in KDEs own UI preference utility.

Good luck,

Stevan.

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[George Goffe]

Stevan,

I did a slightly different search on duckduckgo... and found something
REALLY interesting. I implemented it and a lot of "things" changed.
The VBOX menus became readable. The browser (Firefox) things (bars and
windows) changed too. Not all changed. The save menu did NOT. Argh!. I
had to adjust to the new font sizes.

Here's the magic " export QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.45" in my .bashrc...

I'm still "exploring" what else was affected.

I would like to see just ONE PLACE where ALL the font sizes can be
changed. What an interesting thought.

Best regards,

George...

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