Very small font

[Bruce MacArthur]

On Friday 21 August 2009 08:08:11 pm Paul wrote:
> I am brand new to linux and I just installed kubuntu 9.04 and I have 
extremely 
> small fonts.  I changed the default size in the system settings and 
most KDE 
> apps are looking OK but there is a lot of things that the font is too 
small to 
> read,  I have a good computer and use a 32 inch Protron flat screen TV 
as my 
> monitor.  The font size on Thunderbird is like  2 points, very 
unreadable.   I 
> cannot find any options that change this.  Does anybody else know where 
to look 
> so that I can change this? 
> 
> Thank you,
> Paul

Hello, Paul --
You simply MUST learn to use your menu-bars!  A friend of mine runs 
Thunderbird under win-doze XP, and I took a look at it there (since I 
use KMail, which is natural to the KDE).  The third entry from the left 
is called "View".  When I made that selection, I saw an option called 
"Text Size", and which gives entirely adequate directions.

Furthermore, although I do not know where it may be documented for you 
-- and I have "instructed" more than one "technical support specialist" 
on it -- but there are many applications (especially browsers) which 
will enlarge a font when you hold down the "Ctrl" key while tapping the 
"+and =" key almost as many times as you would really want to!  Those 
applications will also reduce the size when you replace "+and=" with the 
"_and-".  The shift key is irrelevant to this usage.

I hope this helps you!