fonts in kate

[rikona]

On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 13:10:02 +0200
Liam Proven <lproven at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 13 Jun 2021 at 08:33, Ralf Mardorf via ubuntu-users
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com> wrote:
> >
> > did you test different DPI settings?
> >
> > https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Xorg#Display_size_and_DPI  
> 
> What Ralf said.
> 
> Do not change the font size. This is the wrong way to do this. Kate is
> doing exactly what you asked: you asked for a big font, you got a big
> font. You can't have it both ways. That's why this is the wrong way.
> 
> Change the DPI size.
> 
> GNOME has a fractional scaling setting but if you're using Kate then
> that implies you're using KDE.  I don't like KDE myself (too many
> fiddly little settings in too many places, but it doesn't let me
> configure the things that I personally want because the KDE devs don't
> work the way I do) so I can't advise on configuring it.
> 
> It seems KDE can do this:
> 
> https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=KDE-Does-Wayland-Frac-Scaling#
> 
> https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/kltq6u/how_exactly_is_fractional_scaling_implemented_in/
> 
> But apparently only under Wayland. I don't know if you're using the
> most recent version of KDE, or Wayland or X.org, so I can't help
> there. You said Kubuntu but not what version.

Thanks to you and Ralf. I was thinking at an apps level and it seems to
be a system level problem. This is the latest Kubuntu 20.04 LTS
version. I didn't think it uses Wayland, but that could be wrong.
Display is 3840 x 2160. I found a global scale 'slider' in display
settings - that looks like the thing to set from the default 100% to
about 160% to get the right dpi based on the physical size, assuming a
default of 96 dpi. Did not change much when I did that, but may need a
reboot to set things up, which I'll do when I complete the 20-30 things
I'm working on. 

Lots of stuff on the net re hi-res display problems in Kubuntu, so not
sure the above is the right solution. Your thoughts much appreciated...