On Thu, 10 May 2018 22:20:00 -0400
dep <dep@...> wrote:

> On May 10, 2018 9:33 PM, Felix Miata <mrmazda@...> wrote:
> 
> 
> > Xft.dpi is how TDE desktop settings forces DPI, but with limited choices. Put
> > 
> > Xft.dpi in e.g. ~/.Xresources and it isn't limited.  
> 
> The guys plugged in an x2 zoom such that it's effectively 1080x540. If it weren't for stuff like scrollbars, I'd rather do it by adjusting fontsize, because I do a lot of work in the GIMP, and the higher the resolution the happier I am for that. 

If you're still struggling with this, you can override the font size (not the DPI or
zoom factor) for GTK2 applications by editing .gtkrc-2.0 for the appropriate
user.  Mine has the line 

gtk-font-name="Times New Roman, 12"

which does indeed produce text of the expected font and size.

Scrollbar width should be determined by the styles being applied.  Unfortunately, 
it's been a long time since I last looked into GTK2 styles (I threw together something 
that satisfied me circa 2012 and have left it alone since).  It's probably a setting 
applied to Gtk-Scrollbar:: or Gtk-Range::, though, and the style files are plain text
and can be grepped for examples.

E. Liddell