Very small fonts on 4K monitor [solved]
I recently upgraded my display to a 4K monitor.
I am running it with a new instance of Debian 12 under the Mate desktop,
though I think the problem happens with other desktops.
I had the immediate problem that most text was almost too small to view.
This occurred in many different applications and especially Google Chrome.
There are a variety of tweaks you can do to adjust the font sizes for
applications and for Mate defaults. None are really satisfactory and for
Google Chrome it was impossible to increase the microscopic size of the
text in the address bar and the size of the adjacent icons.
I did a fair bit of research and tried the various chrome 'cheats' but
with little or no effect.
There is however an easy fix that I discovered. Ditch Nouveau!
I put in the Nvidia driver for my board and instantly almost all the
font problems were solved. In fact I had to go back and undo all the
font overrides I had in order to get an easily usable desktop.
This may well work with AMD graphics cards as well, but I've not tested it.
Jeremy
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