GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 771898
Font size in text area does not scale when large text is selected from Control Center -> Universal Access
Last modified: 2016-11-12 15:33:23 UTC
Created attachment 336174 [details] Text size in gedit with font scaling set to 1.25 I have a screen with a 1920x1080 resolution which makes reading text difficult. So I usually turn on the Large Text setting in Universal Access (or equivalently by changing gnome-tweak-tool/Font/Scale Factor to 1.25). This used to be enough until GNOME version 3.20. But since the upgrade to the 3.22 stack, while the rest of the desktop still follows the right text size the font size in Gedit's text area remains tiny and the change of scale factor apparently has no effect on it. This is true also of the text area in Builder, Anjuta and others.
Created attachment 336175 [details] Text size in gedit with font scaling set to 2.00
True both on Xorg and Wayland sessions.
Moving to gtksourceview - it's not unique to gedit (gnome-terminal shows it too)
(In reply to Dominique Leuenberger from comment #3) > Moving to gtksourceview - it's not unique to gedit (gnome-terminal shows it > too) ignore the gnome-terminal statement
It's evident in gnome-builder as well (which relies on gtksourceview)
Text scaling appears to work fine here in gnome-builder 3.22.0 and gitg 3.22.0. I've seen the issue only in gedit so far (in combination with GtkSourceView).
Created attachment 336279 [details] gedit, gnome-builder vs. scaling (gnome-terminal for reference) All three apps have the same font settings
(In reply to James Mason from comment #7) > All three apps have the same font settings Sorry; further digging showed gnome-builder used it's own font settings (ironically it was set to 13pt, whereas the system font is 12pt, yet every use of the system font is larger)
If GtkLabel and GtkEntry have support for that GNOME setting, then GtkTextView should too.
Logs also has this issue. See bug#770177.
Also seen on evolution, so this problem is more general (and really painful for my eyes!)
(In reply to Jonathan Kang from comment #10) > Logs also has this issue. See bug#770177. I fixed bug#770177 in gnome-logs, and found that it's related with some changes of GTK+. The text in Logs doesn't change when you turn on "Big Text". But it's very small(smaller that it should be) even when you don't turn on "Big Text". So I suppose the issue that was in Logs should be different with this one.
Bug #774248 has a better description (with the gsetting key, among other things). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 774248 ***