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Kalamalka Kid
Asked: 2016-05-12 15:32:52 +0800 CST

GUI DPI scaling on certain apps very small

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I recently installed STEAM and webcamstudio on my UBUNTU machine which is running a resolution of 1920 x 1080. I have found that these applications do not honor the system-wide font sizes, but use instead a different DPI which makes reading the menus very difficult as the text is very small.

Is there a way that I can change the settings so that the GUI font of these apps are not microscopic at this resolution?

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5 Answers

  1. The skin (the accepted answer) is deprecated by the author, and it does not scale perfectly.

    For those who are still looking for a good solution, there is actually a setting in steam to do that.

    Simply check Steam->Settings->Interface->Enlarge text and icons based on monitor size and restart steam will give you a perfect text size.

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  2. Best Answer

    Currently steam hardcoded the font size on linux.

    The only way I found to increase the font size is to use a HiDPI skin

    Installation:

    1. Open terminal
    2. cd to your steam skin directory (see note)

    3. Clone the repo(you must have git installed sudo apt-get install git)

      git clone https://github.com/MoriTanosuke/HiDPI-Steam-Skin.git

    Then open Steam and go to Settings->Interface. Choose the new skin "HiDPI-Steam-Skin"

    NOTE: The exact path to the skins might be different depending on your installation.

    It might be located at ~/.steam/skins/ or ~/.local/share/Steam/skins/.

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  3. I use KDE. I fixed this going to:

    System Settings → Application Style → GNOME/GTK Application Style → GTK Themes → Fonts

    There I picked a font and new size. In my case the displayed font was not active, meaning that what was seen was not applying. I just increased and decreased the font size, so that the setting was refreshed and it worked! I just had to restart my applications.

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  4. It is probably caused by system default dpi scaling as i recently faced the same problem with sublime text 3. You should use default dpi that is '1'. if you change settings certain apps behave erraticly as they are made for certain resolutions and thus making a fuss in rendering process of gui.

    To correct this just go to

    System > Settings > Displays > Scale for menu and title bars

    and change the scale to 1. this should solve the problem (restart your pc just in case :p ).

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  5. I was able to fix mine by going to:

    System Settings -> Application Style -> GNOME Application Style (GTK)

    and setting the font there for GTK themes to be the same as my system font.

    Half my apps were fine, half were ugly fonts.

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