How to zoom in and out of text in Gedit?

11.10 gedit zooming

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Solution 1

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Under Edit → Preferences → Plugins, you can tick the Text Size box and zoom in with ctrl++.
- Click on gedit-plugins to install the Gedit plugins.
- You can also manually download/install the plugin.
ctrl+Trackpad scroll (up/down) enables you, to zoom in and out as well, not only within gEdit, but also in your Webbrowser, File System etc.

Both possibilities work just fine in Ubuntu 11.10.

Update information for Ubuntu 17.x.x, 18.x.x and later, as suggested by code_dredd - tested and works:

sudo apt-get install -y gedit-plugin-text-size

Solution 2

enter image description here You can change the fontsize in the preferences menu under the fonts tab

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Yunfeng Xi

Updated on September 18, 2022

Comments

Yunfeng Xi over 1 year

I am using Ubuntu 11.10. This seems to be an easy question, yet I cannot find an answer anywhere.

On pre-unity Ubuntu, I was using gedit-zoom plugin to zoom text in editor window in/out, either with Ctrl++/-, or by holding Ctrl+ scrolling mouse-wheel. The same plugin does not seem to work in Ubuntu 11.10.

Any way I can get text zooming capability?
- Admin about 12 years
  
  The functionality appears to be broken in 12.04. Ctrl+"-" and Ctrl+"0" work, while Ctrl+"+" and Ctrl+mousewheel do not.
jokerdino over 12 years

I don't have the plugin you mentioned in here.
v2r over 12 years

You can always install it (: You know how to..right!?
jokerdino over 12 years

That was a hint to tell you to add the part about installing the plugin. ;)
v2r over 12 years

indeed it was (: ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/gedit-plugins however doesn't seem to work right now, but you can also type in "gedit" in "Ubuntu Software Center" and add plugins from there.
jokerdino over 12 years

I edited the answer a bit. I hope you don't mind.
v2r over 12 years

No, not at all!
Oki Erie Rinaldi about 8 years

Maybe this is the only 'official' way. But, we are always looking for the fastest way, aren't we?
ocean800 almost 8 years

Thanks this worked for me since I don't have the plugin! +1
code_dredd over 7 years

The post doesn't make this explicitly clear, so just in case someone's still lost, 1) open a terminal, 2) run the following command: sudo apt-get install -y gedit-plugins, and 3) enter your admin passphrase to proceed
v2r over 7 years

Hello Ray, thank you for pointing it out. That's standards procedure!
code_dredd about 6 years

These steps no longer work on Ubuntu 17.10. The gedit-plugins package does not include the gedit-plugin-text-size package with it. You now have to install the package manually: sudo apt-get install -y gedit-plugin-text-size.
code_dredd about 6 years

@v2r It's better to avoid some assumptions :) BTW, one of your URLs is broken, and it'd be beneficial if you could update your answer to reflect the most recent steps necessary to accomplish this. You can look at my previous comment for that.
v2r about 5 years

Thank you code_dredd! I added your suggestion to my original answer. Both links are working fine now: Sunday, May 5th 2019; 9:42:37 AM
robm over 2 years

10 years old, and this answer went from being right, to being (slightly) wrong, back to being right again (in Ubuntu 21.10).
user2279952 over 2 years

Worked perfectly for me on Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS, thank you!