I looked and found that Plasma 5.12 is the latest I can get with Kubuntu 
18.04.  Which config file should I edit?

On 7/19/20 3:06 PM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> Looks like it might be a feature of newer versions of the Plasma 
> Desktop.  I'm running Kubuntu 20.04 on the version that I saw the 
> setting.
> Most likely you can still hand edit the config file on older versions 
> though.
>
> Brian Cluff
>
> On 7/19/20 2:14 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> I opened system settings, clicked startup and shutdown.  The first 
>> option on the top left is Login Screen (SDDM).  I click that and the 
>> advanced tab shows.  I click it, but there's no settings 
>> synchronization button.  I have Plasma 5.12.9.    You can see what I 
>> do have under the advanced tab here https://ibb.co/3snzX6Y
>>
>> On 7/19/20 10:51 AM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>> I was just poking around the SDDM theme settings and under the 
>>> advanced tab I just noticed there is a settings synchronization 
>>> button that will allow you to synchronize your desktop settings to 
>>> the SDDM theme.  That would probably be the best way to go, and if 
>>> that works ignore my last message :)
>>>
>>> Brian Cluff
>>>
>>> On 7/19/20 10:46 AM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>> If you are talking about the font sizes on the login screen itself; 
>>>> those font sizes aren't set by the font settings in your desktop 
>>>> settings.  The login screen is shared between all users of the 
>>>> machine so it has to have it's own settings.
>>>> You'll either need to tweak the SDDM theme, or change the 
>>>> resolution of the whole system.
>>>>
>>>> If you are using the breeze sddm theme you can edit it's config 
>>>> file at /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf and there is a 
>>>> font size setting in there.
>>>>
>>>> If you want to make sure that your changes don't get overwritten 
>>>> the next time the system updates the theme you might want to do this:
>>>>
>>>> sudo dpkg-divert --add /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf
>>>>
>>>> The above line will cause any future installs of the package to 
>>>> write the package's version of the config file to 
>>>> /usr/share/sddm/themes/breeze/theme.conf.distrib instead of it's 
>>>> normal name.  That way the system will always get your version of 
>>>> the config file.
>>>>
>>>> Brian Cluff
>>>>
>>>> On 7/19/20 10:13 AM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>>> Good morning,
>>>>>
>>>>> I've got a machine running Kubuntu 18.04 64 bit.  When I log out 
>>>>> and log in or press ctrl alt backspace; beginning at the login 
>>>>> screen the text is much smaller.  The first time this happened, I 
>>>>> reset the text to make everything the size I wanted.  When I 
>>>>> rebooted the machine, the text was too big, so I made it smaller. 
>>>>> It wasn't doing this when I first installed the OS on this 
>>>>> dinosaur.  Any idea what happened, or more importantly, how I fix it?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I went into system settings/fonts.  The sizes for the various 
>>>>> fonts are from top to bottom 12 14 14 14 14 12. When I log in a 
>>>>> second time without rebooting, the text is much smaller as I 
>>>>> described, but these font size settings are the same.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> thanks
>>>>>
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