Icon text font too small in Activities

[BradW]

Hello,

I am using a 17" VGA monitor with 1024x768 resolution. With some tweaking, I'm pretty satisfied with GNOME Shell and its look. The only exception is the font of the text below the icons in Activities. On my monitor with this resolution, the text is just too small. As far as I know, it's the smallest text anywhere in the GUI. This is kind of an accessibility issue for me, since I do have a sight problem.

Does anyone know how to increase just this font size?

Brad

[fpmurphy]

I assume you are talking about the application names. You can change the font size in gnome-shell.css

[BradW]

Hi fpmurphy,

Thanks for the info on gnome-shell.css. Lots of settings in there! Not exactly sure what to change, but I will look for some documentation.

Brad

---------- Post added at 11:36 PM ---------- Previous post was at 08:12 PM ----------

Hello,

I managed to find the setting in gnome-shell.css to adjust the Activities->Applications icon caption font. I also found the settings to adjust the Activities->Windows icon caption font, and the Dock tootip font. If anyone needs this information, let me know.

Brad

[taamir]

Hi, I have the same problem, can you tell me were the font settings are?

[BradW]

Hi Taamir,

Here's what I wrote up for my own documentation:

Increase the Panel (top line of desktop) font to 13pt. Edit the font-size setting in
the /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css file as follows:

/* Panel */

#panel {
color: #ffffff;
background-color: black;
border-image: url("panel-border.svg") 1;
font-size: 13pt;
height: 1.86em;
}

Increase the Activities->Applications icon caption font to 12pt. Edit the font-size setting in
the /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css file as follows:

/* Apps */

.app-well-app > .overview-icon,
.remove-favorite > .overview-icon,
.search-result-content > .overview-icon {
border-radius: 4px;
padding: 3px;
border: 1px rgba(0,0,0,0);
font-size: 12pt;
color: white;
transition-duration: 100;
text-align: center;
}

Increase the application well item menu font to 12pt. Edit the font-size setting in
the /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css file as follows:

/* Apps */

.app-well-menu {
font-size: 12pt;
}

Increase the Activities->Windows icon caption font to 12pt. Edit the font-size setting in
the /usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css file as follows:

/* Overview */

.window-caption {
background: rgba(0,0,0,0.8);
border: 1px solid rgba(128,128,128,0.40);
border-radius: 10px;
font-size: 12pt;
padding: 2px 8px;
-shell-caption-spacing: 4px;
}

Increase the application well tooltip font size to 1.30em. Edit the font-size setting in the
/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-shell.css file as follows:

(near top of file)

StTooltip StLabel {
border: 1px solid rgba(255,255,255,0.6);
border-radius: 5px;
padding: 2px 12px;
background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.9);
color: #ffffff;
font-size: 1.30em;
font-weight: normal;
text-align: center;
}

When finished, restart gnome-shell by typing 'r' and then ENTER in the ALT-F2
run dialog.

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Let me know if you have further questions.

Brad

[mooreted]

I followed your directions but absolutely nothing changed. The fonts in Activities require a magnifying glass. 22" monitor.

Nevermind. I found a bunch of 10.5pt and 9pt entries and changed all the ones I care about. I can read it now.