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Author: Jim via PLUG-discuss
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CC: Jim
Subject: Re: text too small - almost forgot
It's the font sizes on the login screen and everything after the login
screen

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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