(SOLVED) Universal access

Can anyone help show I can increase fonts for impaired vision. The universal access in system setting did NOT magnify everything across the board. The fonts in Firefox is still small. I have to manually zoom under view menu which is a bit of pain.

Thanks
siawacsh

Hi,

make sure you have "Dconf-Editor" installed first, also you can use the "Gnome Tweak Tool" which is also not installed by default!.

Change global font size:
Dconf Editor > Org > Gnome > Desktop > Interface > Text-scaling-factor 1.0 (1.0 = font size 10. and 1.1 would be font size 11 and so on) (Mine is set to 1.2 = Font size 12)

Or:

(Gnome) Tweak Tool > Fonts > Text Scaling Factor

To install both apps in a terminal, paste this command:

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools gnome-tweak-tool

To change the page fonts in Firefox, simply press Ctrl and the plus symbol (+) which will increase the fonts and everything else, or you can globally set the font size in Google Chrome via the settings manager and it is permanent.

Regards Wolfman

Hello Wolfman, I have tried several distros but your support takes first prize in terms of no nonesense, easy to follow solutions. Keep up the good work! Thank you too swarfendor437, for taking the time to respond.

Good to hear, will mark as solved!.

Regards Wolfman