Font Size for Menus (not Subtitles/OSD)

[shawnhcorey]

Why isn't VLC using my system fonts for its menus and dialogs? It changed in the last update and now it is too small to read.

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Menu and dialog fonts are selected by QtGUI, not VLC. So no it won't change by updating VLC; by updating Qt maybe.

[shawnhcorey]

Menu and dialog fonts are selected by QtGUI, not VLC. So no it won't change by updating VLC; by updating Qt maybe.

Thanks, I'll look into Qt.

[ColocMaster]

Hi there,

This is still an issue for me. Did you find a way to tweak Qt?

Thanks from a user deeply in love with VLC!

[shawnhcorey]

Hi there,

This is still an issue for me. Did you find a way to tweak Qt?

Thanks from a user deeply in love with VLC!

Sorry no. I kind of forgot.

[CtrlAltDel]

Hi there,

This is still an issue for me. Did you find a way to tweak Qt?

Thanks from a user deeply in love with VLC!

As Rémi Denis-Courmont stated in the post above, menu font size is controlled by QT. I had the same issue you did and started using other media players for years because of that issue and then I found this thread. I use Linux Mint Cinnamon as my operating system and it has a program called QT5 Settings and I was able to change the size of the menu fonts to be big enough to see and have started using VLC again.

[shawnhcorey]

Yes, it took a while but I found a package `qt4-qtconfig` that creates the Look & Feel menu item "Qt 4 Settings". It too allows you to change the font settings of all Qt apps.

The initial problem started when Qt stop reading the system fonts and did its own thing. Which it still is. They should use the system fonts as the default settings.

[keehotay]

What is QT?

[shawnhcorey]

What is QT?

Qt is a free and open-source widget toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces as well as cross-platform applications that run on various software and hardware platforms such as Linux, Windows, macOS, Android or embedded systems with little or no change in the underlying codebase while still being a native application with native capabilities and speed. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qt_(software)

Web site: https://www.qt.io/

[rikoski]

Qt, Schmiti.... Why the heck users have to bring microscope to read darn options?
Aint better way to provide just normal font size as in majority of all others cross platform apps?
Pathetic.
Why would I lose my time trying to figure what is Qt and tweaking this crap?
FOH