(solved) KDE root programs' fonts very small

[Bill Vance]

Using 16.04, I've been having the tiny font problem, too.
The, "kdesudo systemsettings5", trick helped get firefox
reasonably workable, but didn't seem to do anything for
synaptic, (or anything else apperantly).  I tried the
/etc/environment variable you mention below, but that
didn't seem to do anything at all.  What am I missing
here?

Bill

On Tue, 20 Feb 2018, Volker Wysk wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I've had the problem, that graphical programs (or program
> parts), which run as root, had a very small font size -
> such assystemsettings5 or muon's settings->configure
> software sources window.
>
> I've investigated it, and I found that the following has
> to be added to /etc/environment:
>
> XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE
>
> That is, the XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP environment variable
> needs to be set to "KDE". But this doesn't work when set
> in ~/.bashrc, ~/.proile or /etc/profile. Looks like these
> scripts aren't called by kdesudo. Instead, it works when
> the mentionendline is included in /etc/environment (not a
> script).
>
> Bye
> Volker
>
>
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