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[Brian Cluff]

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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