Scaling the GUI of an app

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Hi there,

i’ve installed Kompozer (a WYSIWYG editor) but some items of the GUI are very small : the cursor, the text i enter and some icons.

i’ve tried theese 2 solutions :

  1. via the terminal :

kompozer --force-device-scale-factor=2

  1. adding to my ~/.profile :

export QT_AUTO_SCREEN_SET_FACTOR=0
export QT_SCALE_FACTOR=2
export QT_FONT_DPI=192
export GDK_SCALE=2
export GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5

But nothing works :worried:
What can i do ?

Thanx

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I have no answer to your question. Just wanted to point out that the last code submit for KompoZer was dated September 2011.

Given Firefox made significant changes to its own code during that period, some breaking backward compatibility, I hope you have the software skills to perform the “code-patching” work that will be required to ensure compatibility with current versions of the browser.

The only alternative, also fraught with roadblocks, is trying to slim down an old 2011 version of Firefox source-code, such that it is limited to performing the WYSIWYG functionality.

I wish you all the best!

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Thank-you for your answer ericmarceau.

i think i’ve perhaps find something with the sommelier package, i’ve to test that.
(it’s fun : its name is the french word for wine seller :slight_smile: )

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I don't think that that is going to work.
Sommelier is a Wayland compositor and Ubuntu MATE is not yet Wayland ready (it is still on X11).

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