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Vanilla Dpup 9 and 10

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Hello,

I did installed both Vanilla Dpups on a USB stick and both work very well with added portable apps.
But the font on my laptop screen are rather small.
So I tried to change the global font size in desktop settings but that does not work. The fonts stay the same after I restarted the graphical server.

Is there another way I can change the global font size?

Thanks
Ron

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Re: Vanilla Dpup 9 and 10

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Is there another way I can change the global font size?

yes there is
# Increase Font size
Add:

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Xft.dpi: 120

to /root/.Xdefaults

Restart the graphical server

works for both x11 and wayland versions

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Re: Vanilla Dpup 9 and 10

Post by Ronny »

Thank you very very much.
Works perfectly.

And while I'm at it... how do I turn on num lock automatically at startup?
Don't find that option in the setup anymore.
Ron

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Re: Vanilla Dpup 9 and 10

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Ronny wrote: Thu Oct 19, 2023 6:06 pm

And while I'm at it... how do I turn on num lock automatically at startup?

You need to install "numlockx" program. Use apt via terminal or install via synaptic installer.

To start automatically at startup, create a new .desktop file (for numlockx) in the ~/.config/autostart folder. With approximately this content:

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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
Name=numlockx
Exec=/usr/bin/numlockx on
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Re: Vanilla Dpup 9 and 10

Post by Ronny »

I installed numlockx and made the numlockx.desktop file.
When starting up all seems well, in Firefox and in a text file, the numlock is (and stays) active and i can keep inserting numbers.
But weirdly, when I log in somewhere (tried on Puppy Forum and two other sites, the numlock turns back off after I type a couple of characters. So to log in I have to reactivate the numlock button and reenter my passwords. Strange no?
Ron

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Re: Vanilla Dpup 9 and 10

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And while I'm at it... how do I turn on num lock automatically at startup?

Unfortunately numlockx only works with X11
If you have the wayland version there is no solutions yet that I could find.

For the 9.xx versions add this little script to your startup file

/root/startup

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#!/bin/sh
numlockx on
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Re: Vanilla Dpup 9 and 10

Post by Ronny »

Thank you both very much. I think I can live with that ;-)
I suppose it will be sorted out in one of the next versions.
Best regards
Ron

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