Font sizes TOO SMALL. Help please!

[George R Goffe]

Howdy,

Thanks to those who responded. The suggestions helped some but left more than a few areas unaffected... like the "save file" menu when you save a file. I don't know where to begin with that. Sigh...

In doing some more/different research I found a solution that helped A LOT! It's so simple it's ridiculous.

export QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.45

That's it!

Best regards,

George...

[Rodolfo Martin Baumler]

since I redo my slackware install once each 5 years on average,  I tend to forget how to solve problems like those.

found this on my working machine, intended to solve problems with firefox, thunderbird and any other gtk application:

rudy@rudy2:~/.config/gtk-4.0$ cat settings.ini  
[Settings]
gtk-application-prefer-dark-theme=false
gtk-cursor-theme-name=breeze_cursors
gtk-cursor-theme-size=24
gtk-decoration-layout=icon:minimize,maximize,close
gtk-enable-animations=true
gtk-font-name=Noto Sans,  10
gtk-icon-theme-name=breeze
gtk-primary-button-warps-slider=false

as for kde applications like konsole/dolphin ( I use those under wmaker) you must use systemsettings

hope it helps

(ps: sry about duplicated msg)

[George R Goffe]

Howdy,

I'm still having trouble with fonts and Window Maker.

I changed the fonts in the WM config tool as suggested by respondents to an earlier post on this topic and at first that worked but now has apparently stopped working. Additionally, the config tool changes the content that's displayed, leaving all the other fonts like "window decorations" REALLY small.

This system is a Fedora 42 system and is as up-to-date as I can make it. I re-built WM frequently from the repository and I have done that here, thinking something has changed due to system updates. Still no joy.

Is there a log file somewhere in WM where errors are logged?

The default fonts as chosen by WM(?) are too small. The top few lines and the bottom few lines of NON data are still small. The save-file dialog fonts are too small too.

Any/all help/hints/tips/suggestions are GREATLY appreciated.

Best regards,

George...

[Kostas Michalopoulos]

On 5/24/25 2:37 AM, 'George R Goffe' via Window Maker Users wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> I'm still having trouble with fonts and Window Maker.
>
> I changed the fonts in the WM config tool as suggested by respondents to an earlier post on this topic and at first that worked but now has apparently stopped working. Additionally, the config tool changes the content that's displayed, leaving all the other fonts like "window decorations" REALLY small.

Can you post another screenshot with the issues?

FWIW most of the issues you've mentioned in previous emails seem to be
with toolkits like Qt, Gtk, etc, not Window Maker itself - the visual
configuration tool will let you configure the fonts for the menus,
titlebars, etc in Window Maker but it doesn't affect other programs.
You'd have the same issues with other window managers (full blown
desktop environments like KDE do have tools that configure multiple
things at once though).

You can edit the appropriate configuration files for Qt and Gtk though
there are also specific visual tools. For Qt you may want to use
something like qt5ct or qt6ct (i'm not sure if qt6ct also updates qt5ct
files) to edit/create configuration files. Gtk also has something
similar though i can't think of the name now. But in general you'd need
to edit/create the configuration files for the GUI toolkits your
applications use (note that different major versions of a toolkit may
use different files, e.g. Gtk2 and Gtk3 need to be configured
separately) to use the fonts you want.

Kostas