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Greg V.
Asked: 2012-03-01 16:16:50 +0800 CST

How to zoom in and out of text in Gedit?

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I am using Ubuntu 11.10. This seems to be an easy question, yet I cannot find an answer anywhere.

On pre-unity Ubuntu, I was using gedit-zoom plugin to zoom text in editor window in/out, either with Ctrl++/-, or by holding Ctrl+ scrolling mouse-wheel. The same plugin does not seem to work in Ubuntu 11.10.

Any way I can get text zooming capability?

gedit 11.10 zooming

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    1. Under Edit → Preferences → Plugins, you can tick the Text Size box and zoom in with ctrl++.

      • Click on gedit-plugins Install gedit-plugins to install the Gedit plugins.

      • You can also manually download/install the plugin.

    2. ctrl+Trackpad scroll (up/down) enables you, to zoom in and out as well, not only within gEdit, but also in your Webbrowser, File System etc.

    Both possibilities work just fine in Ubuntu 11.10.

    Update information for Ubuntu 17.x.x, 18.x.x and later, as suggested by code_dredd - tested and works:

    sudo apt-get install -y gedit-plugin-text-size

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  2. enter image description hereYou can change the fontsize in the preferences menu under the fonts tab

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  3. I didn't see "Text size" plugin in the list of the plugins when I opened Preferences->Plugins even after installing gedit-plugins package(via apt install) and restarting gedit few times. So, I downloaded manually the corresponding deb file(gedit-plugin-text-size_3.22.0-2_amd64.deb) from the launchpad (http://launchpadlibrarian.net/335063179/gedit-plugin-text-size_3.22.0-2_amd64.deb) for my Ubuntu 17.10 x86_64 and installed it, restarted gedit and saw "Text size" plugin thereafter in the list. Enabled it and finally got the zoom-in/out feature with mouse-scroll-wheel I much needed.

    Cheers.

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