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> The TTY must die!!!! Being sight-impaired, I have to disagree strongly! The TTY is the only thing that lets me adjust the font size of all programs running i
by nils-m-holm 11y ago
> The TTY must die!!!!
Being sight-impaired, I have to disagree strongly! The TTY is the only thing that lets me adjust the font size of all programs running in it without going through lots of trouble.
(BTW: didn't downvote your comment.)
- guard-of-terra 11y agoBrowsers let you do that. KDE also does, so do other environments. For a quick hack, set your sceen DPI to 50.
- nils-m-holm 11y agoSet your minimum font size to 32 points and browse the web for a while! Let me know how it feels!
- guard-of-terra 11y agoBrowsers can set default zoom, not just font size.
- nils-m-holm 11y agoDoesn't help. When the zoom factor is big enough, you have to scroll sideways while reading. Anyway, I have tried a lot of things over the years and nothing even comes close to using a text interface. To name a few nuisances: controls moving outside of the screen, overlapping elements in web content, unreadable buttons, unclickable input fields, tiny fonts in menus, etc. Nothing of this happens with text interfaces. Thanks for your input, though!
- guard-of-terra 11y agoFor reading, consider installing beeline reader (yes the name is stupid-ish), in plugin or bookmarklet form.
- SixSigma 11y agoPlan9 has an environment variable $font that sets the system font for everything. The windowing system can even start inside one of its own windows so you can have different fonts for different sets of programs, all settable at runtime. The TTY must die.