Increase interface font size?

[peter004]

I am using Electrum appimage for linux. I looked in the Electrum settings but i can't see option to increase the font size of the text in program interface. Is there any way to increase the font size?

[nc50lc]

Is there any way to increase the font size?

Not in the app, but you can increase your system's font size or DPI and Electrum should follow.
If that doesn't work, update your Electrum to the latest version because there was an issue in the older version where it doesn't follow the system's settings correctly.

[ghost43]

The user interface uses Qt, so see e.g.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/30684764/increase-font-size-in-qt
https://doc.qt.io/qt-6/highdpi.html

Accordingly, you could try setting the QT_FONT_DPI environment variable to a somewhat higher value (default is 96 I think).

Code:

$ QT_FONT_DPI=120 electrum

(but I haven't tested this atm. Should produce some effect, it might just look bad.)

[peter004]

Using QT_FONT_DPI=120 to start Electrum worked. Thanks.

[mcdouglasx]

I am using Electrum appimage for linux. I looked in the Electrum settings but i can't see option to increase the font size of the text in program interface. Is there any way to increase the font size?

I know you can do this in Windows by right-clicking on the shortcut, then selecting Properties. In the destination, replace the contents with something like this:

Code:

cmd /c "set QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.5 && start "" "C:\Program Files (x86)\Electrum\electrum-4.5.8.exe""

- replace it according to your path.


From Linux, you could launch the application with something like this:

Code:

QT_SCALE_FACTOR=1.5 ./electrum-4.5.8-x86_64.AppImage

You can increase or decrease QT_SCALE_FACTOR to your liking.

This is the closest solution I see to what you need.

In essence, what this does is scale the graphical interface of the software through a runtime environment variable available to the framework used in QT


note:

I recommend this instead of just increasing the font, since this increases the entire interface and could avoid problems where texts could overlap with the graphical interface.