You're in for a treat. 20.04 is possibly the best release of Kubuntu ever.
Brian Cluff
On 7/20/20 9:10 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
> This install has other problems. Tonight I lost the toolbar and the
> menubar in Gwenview. I also lost the menubar in Dolphin. All the
> options I read online to restore them don't work. I'm going to try
> installing Kubuntu 20.04 on another partition and try it for a while.
> I'm tired of messing with the 18.04 installation. Thanks for your help.
>
> On 7/20/20 3:30 PM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>> Breeze is refering to the SDDM theme, not your desktop theme. There
>> is no oxygen theme for SDDM. Unless you changed it, the default
>> theme is breeze, but even if you did change it, just look on that
>> same path substituting your theme for the breeze and it will also
>> have a config file you can change.
>>
>> These are the available sddm themes in Bionic:
>> sddm-theme-breeze
>> sddm-theme-debian-elarun
>> sddm-theme-debian-maui
>> sddm-theme-elarun
>> sddm-theme-lubuntu-chooser
>> sddm-theme-maldives
>> sddm-theme-maui
>> sddm-theme-maya
>>
>> Brian Cluff
>>
>> On 7/20/20 12:05 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>> I'm using the oxygen desktop theme. Also, I suspect something else
>>> is going on besides font size because when the font text is small,
>>> the settings show it being the same size as when it's the normal
>>> size. Thanks for looking into this.
>>>
>>>
>>> On 7/19/20 6:20 PM, Brian Cluff via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>> I looked at the file exists that I mentioned in my previous message
>>>> exists in Bionic
>>>>
>>>> From my previous message:
>>>> 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 3:26 PM, Jim via PLUG-discuss wrote:
>>>>> 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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