System font is too small

Question

I am running Ubuntu 14.04.01 LTS with Unity, here's the uname output:

Linux e530 3.13.0-44-generic #73-Ubuntu SMP Tue Dec 16 00:22:43 UTC 2014 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

My difficulty is that my font sizes are extremely small, including the menu bar up top like the battery time , system time, as well as the terminal font and the window it now displays in. here`s a screenshot:

I tried going into the System Settings → Display and changing those options they have in there for that but all it did was make the icons extremely large and a relatively small increase in font.

Any suggestions? I'm thinking, maybe it comes to uninstall Unity desktop and reinstall?

Solution

You definitely don't have to uninstall Unity.

Maybe the simplest solution is install Unity Tweak Tool, and setting the font sizes to suit for you. You can also modify the dconf database with dconf-editor, but that is more tedious and also requires software installation.

You can install Unity Tweak Tool using the Software Center, or by the terminal command:

sudo apt-get install unity-tweak-tool

Comments

[Admin]

Rather than needing people to download your screenshot, it would be more practical if you could upload it to something like imgur and link to it there. As some users may also not want to download an unknown file onto their computer for security reasons.

[Gr4cchus]

sorry about that, when i viewed the page it just displayed the picture, no link.

[meskobalazs]

I've edited the question, I think it is now more appropriate.

[david6]

What is your screen resolution? eg. 2560 x 1600 Is the issue with Ubuntu or Firefox? What is the System Settings > Screen Display > 'Scale for menu and title Bars' set to? eg. 1.4

[Gr4cchus]

i will try this although in the pages i read i dont think this worked for the people. I almost wonder, is there a hotkey i could of pressed that did this? i had my had between my laptop and the screen and wonder if something was pressed that day. I know theres control-mousewheel for the browser but thats all its restricted too.

[Gr4cchus]

this is odd, so i launched the program,went to appeance, to text, i restored defaults and it seems to have fixed it, atleast the menu-bar and terminal but my tabs in firefox still look small? Now if i go to the next window in appears which would be cursors and i restore defaults for that, the text gets smalled, the text scaling factor drops by ~10, then when i go to the next tab and default, shrinks again by 10, wtf?

[meskobalazs]

That is most likely a Firefox issue, or maybe it just needs a relog.

[Gr4cchus]

relog helps, looks like this is the fix albeit a strange fix considering the program doesnt come with ubuntu by default. Thank you.

[Wilf]

Though you can do this in the display settings themselves, please note not everyone uses Ubuntu in a VM...