For example, when browsing the Libraries in the Footprint Editor, the text in the footprint list is rather small. Does anyone know of a way to increase the font in the Libraries search window?
You should be able to do that by increasing the font size, or the display scaling in your operating system’s settings.
I am unable to find that capability on Windows 11. In the OS, I go to Settings, Accessibility, Text Size and increase the “text size” and the text in the gui elements of KiCad do not change.
For example, in the PCB Editor application, the “Appearance” sidebar has text describing each layer. This text is very small. When using the OS settings I describe above, text in the various Windows dialogs gets bigger, but the PCB Editor Appearance sidebar does not change.
The situation is better on Linux (Ubuntu 22.04LTS, Gnome 42.9) - I can select “large text” in the settings and I can actually see an improvement in the text in the areas I am concerned with. So, I guess this question really just applies to Windows.
It is my understanding that KiCad for Windows uses some sort of GUI framework. Perhaps there is a setting somewhere that controls the size of the text in the areas I am talking about: Appearance sidebar, Status line at the bottom of the app, etc. These seem to be controlled by the application or perhaps the framework that supports the application. Thoughts?
And display scaling can be changed here:
If you increase it, some icons on a 1920x1080 screen may disappear though.
Yes, so it does. So restarting KiCad did the trick for me. I don’t do the scaling thing because causes too much grief on a dual monitor (the monitors are unfortunately, different sizes).
Thank you!
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