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Re: [trinity-users] font/UI sizes in VLC tiny

From: Lisi Reisz <lisi.reisz@...>
Date: Sun, 15 May 2016 11:36:23 +0100
On Sunday 15 May 2016 09:26:54 Felix Miata wrote:
> Felix Miata composed on 2016-05-14 04:46 (UTC-0400):
> > Does anyone know if VLC's UI can be made to obey Trinity's font size
> > settings? I have font size set to 14 in qtconfig
> > (~/.config/Trolltech.conf), and QT's own settings window has fonts same
> > size as Trinity's size 14 fonts. VLC's fonts are only about half as big
> > as Trinity's:
> >
> > http://fm.no-ip.com/SS/KDE/vlc-tiny-fonts144.jpg
>
> I finally got fonts right in VLC in Jessie's 14.0.3 via IRC help suggesting
> to install and run qtconfig-qt4. NAICT, all running qtconfig-qt4 did was
> put a font setting line into ~/.config/Trolltech.conf. That's already been
> done in openSUSE 42.1 via /usr/bin/qtconfig, which comes from the
> libqt4-x11 rpm, yet VLC fonts remain tiny in openSUSE. :-(
>
> The subject machine/installation is not my own, as I'm doing a nearly blind
> friend a favor. I checked on one of my own openSUSE 42.1/TDE 14.0.3
> installations, and can't get fonts in VLC to obey any font settings there
> either.

I played around with this for a while after Felix raised the question, without 
any success at all.

My own personal solution so far has been not to use vlc: it has such a 
preference for the minuscule in everything.:-/

Lisi