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After update from 15.10 to 16.04 it seems that some scaling was changed, so fonts in 16.04 looks smaller (see attached screenshots). Do you know which settings is responsible for that?


15.10
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Mohamed Slama
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  • i think you changed geany font size if it a general problem may ubuntu font size check this link to adjust http://askubuntu.com/questions/19770/how-do-i-change-fonts-and-adjust-their-size – Mohamed Slama Jun 03 '16 at 17:48
  • Fonts are the same (DejaVuSansMono 10) - generally Geany use monospace 10. Same problem is also visible in Eclipse. I tried many options in fonts area, and none helped... – ubuntu user Jun 03 '16 at 17:56

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I've solved this by downgrading libfreetype6:

  1. Download i386 and amd64 lib packages for wily (links in the bottom of a page libfreetype6_2.5.2-4ubuntu2_amd64.deb (304.7 KiB)).
  2. Open terminal, run sudo dpkg -i libfree*
  3. Prevent auto-upgrade sudo apt-mark hold libfreetype6

As another workaround you may set monospace font in ~/.fonts.conf:

<fontconfig>
  <match target="pattern">
    <test qual="any" name="family">
      <string>monospace</string>
    </test>
    <edit name="family" mode="assign">
      <string>Liberation Mono</string>
    </edit>
    <edit name="pixelsize" mode="assign">
        <times><name>pixelsize</name>, <double>1.08</double></times>
    </edit>
  </match>
</fontconfig>
yanpas
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  • Add +1 ("Does this bug affect you?") to this bug, please https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/freetype/+bug/1613450 – yanpas Aug 18 '16 at 13:00
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Control in Settings->Displays that the scaling factor is the same that in 15.10, otherwise you can change it with the selector (I use it to enlarge all beacuse i have 4K monitor)

trunk96
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  • I can not see such setting in my system. I tried playing with dconf-editor and still no success. In my opinion some scaling value has changed, but I do no know which. – ubuntu user Jun 03 '16 at 18:55
  • My displays settings is like that . Anyway in this page you can find how to use dconf – trunk96 Jun 03 '16 at 19:17
  • Thanks, I do not have this setting, changing it from dconf also does not change anything. I run live ubuntu 16.04 and the same issue is visible. – ubuntu user Jun 03 '16 at 19:32
  • You can try with this command "gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.interface text-scaling-factor " but I don't know if it works with lastest versions of Ubuntu – trunk96 Jun 03 '16 at 19:41
  • Yes, it is working, I changed it to 1.06 and looks much better. I am still interested what happened that I had this problem. text-scaling-factor has the same value in 15.10 and 16.04 so it is not the root cause... Also it make those apps that looked good looks now ugly... – ubuntu user Jun 03 '16 at 19:46
  • It may be a graphics driver issue, but i'm not sure. Anyway I have a lot of graphics issues too on 16.04 and a problem with the fan when I use nVidia driver – trunk96 Jun 03 '16 at 19:53