Menu font too small to read

[newguy778]

I am running Linux Mint 19.3 XFCE.  I installed Gimp with my software manager and the menu has a font size that is too tiny to read.  I thought that maybe it would help to run a more recent version of Gimp so I removed the Gimp 2.8 and downloaded and installed GIMP 2.10.18.  But the font is still too small.  Below is my laptop information.  I tried to do an Internet search trying to find out how to fix this problem and there are countless "solutions" and I ended up having to re-install my operating system after I had it so screwed up I couldn't fix what I had messed up.  I thought I'd come to this forum and ask for help before I screw my computer up again.  Thanks in advance for any help you can give me.

GIMP 2.10.18
Kernel: 5.3.0-45-generic x86_64
  bits: 64 Desktop: Xfce 4.14.1 Distro: Linux Mint 19.3 Tricia
Graphics:
  Device-1: NVIDIA GP107M [GeForce GTX 1050 Ti Mobile] driver: nvidia
  v: 435.21
  Display: x11 server: X.Org 1.20.5 driver: nvidia
  unloaded: fbdev,modesetting,nouveau,vesa resolution: 3840x2160~60Hz
  OpenGL: renderer: GeForce GTX 1050 Ti with Max-Q Design/PCIe/SSE2
  v: 4.6.0 NVIDIA 435.21

[rich2005]

Maybe this is worth a try. Comes from this bug report https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/4892

Add a gtkrc file to the gimp profile 

Code:

#To set the font
style "Monaco"
{
font_name = "Monaco 20"
}
widget_class "*" style "Monaco"
gtk-font-name = "Monaco 20"

This in my regular 1920x1080 laptop. kubuntu 18.04 / Gimp 2.10.14

   

[newguy778]

(04-04-2020, 06:57 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Maybe this is worth a try. Comes from this bug report https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/4892

Add a gtkrc file to the gimp profile 

Code:

#To set the font
style "Monaco"
{
font_name = "Monaco 20"
}
widget_class "*" style "Monaco"
gtk-font-name = "Monaco 20"

This in my regular 1920x1080 laptop. kubuntu 18.04 / Gimp 2.10.14

Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately it didn't change the Gimp menu and font sizes.  But thanks for trying to help me out.

[Ofnuts]

(04-04-2020, 09:36 PM)newguy778 Wrote:

(04-04-2020, 06:57 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Maybe this is worth a try. Comes from this bug report https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/4892

Add a gtkrc file to the gimp profile 

Code:

#To set the font
style "Monaco"
{
font_name = "Monaco 20"
}
widget_class "*" style "Monaco"
gtk-font-name = "Monaco 20"

This in my regular 1920x1080 laptop. kubuntu 18.04 / Gimp 2.10.14

Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately it didn't change the Gimp menu and font sizes.  But thanks for trying to help me out.

You may have missed something. Worked for me (Kubuntu 19.10).

[dinasset]

Thanks Rich.
It worked also for me.

[newguy778]

(04-05-2020, 12:50 AM)Ofnuts Wrote:

(04-04-2020, 09:36 PM)newguy778 Wrote:

(04-04-2020, 06:57 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Maybe this is worth a try. Comes from this bug report https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/4892

Add a gtkrc file to the gimp profile 

Code:

#To set the font
style "Monaco"
{
font_name = "Monaco 20"
}
widget_class "*" style "Monaco"
gtk-font-name = "Monaco 20"

This in my regular 1920x1080 laptop. kubuntu 18.04 / Gimp 2.10.14

Thanks for the suggestion.  Unfortunately it didn't change the Gimp menu and font sizes.  But thanks for trying to help me out.

You may have missed something. Worked for me (Kubuntu 19.10).

I'm doing something stupid because I can't get it to work.  I have an old computer with Gimp that works okay so I'm just going to fire that one up when I need Gimp (which sucks because for years I've used Gimp pretty much every day). 

I'm just going to uninstall Gimp on this newer computer with the HiDPI.  Maybe I can find a different Linux that works better with Gimp and try that.  I'm running Mint 19.3 XFCE now.  I like it a lot.  But I just can't get Gimp to work on it. 

I am going to re-install the OS regardless now.  I've tried a number of Internet solutions for getting Gimp to work and by now I worry that I've screwed up some things. 

On a side note (from my Google searches) it seems like Gimp HiDPI issues affect a ton of people.  Why is that?  Is Gimp needing work to be ready for the HiDPI world?  My other stuff works on Mint XFCE.  And my older computer that is not HiDPI runs Gimp perfectly with Mint XFCE. I just feel like it shouldn't be this hard to get Gimp to work on a modern HiDPI computer.  My other software is fine.

[newguy778]

I thought I'd follow-up in case it would help someone down the road with a similar problem.  I could not get Gimp to work on the Mint 19.3 XFCE HiDPI computer.  As I said in a previous post in this thread, it works fine with the same OS and desktop on a non-HiDPI computer I have.  But I ended up finding something that worked for me (kind of) on the HiDPI machine.  I reformatted the drive and installed a different OS.  Linux Mint 19.3 Cinnamon works better than the XFCE desktop with the same Mint.  Go figure.  The font and menus are still pretty tiny but I can at least squint and read stuff.  The XFCE was unreadable tiny.

[newguy778]

(04-04-2020, 06:57 PM)rich2005 Wrote: Maybe this is worth a try. Comes from this bug report https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/issues/4892

Add a gtkrc file to the gimp profile 

Code:

#To set the font
style "Monaco"
{
font_name = "Monaco 20"
}
widget_class "*" style "Monaco"
gtk-font-name = "Monaco 20"

This in my regular 1920x1080 laptop. kubuntu 18.04 / Gimp 2.10.14

This morning I did get this to work.  I did not realize there were multiple Gimp 2.8 gtkrc files until today.  I was putting the code into the one in my Gimp 2.8 theme folder (the theme I am using) and it wouldn't work.  Today I realized there is another Gimp 2.8 gtkrc file in the main Gimp 2.8 folder and when I added the code to that file it worked.  Thank you so very much for your help.