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echo: rberrypi
to: DRUCK
from: THE NATURAL PHILOSOPHER
date: 2019-08-03 01:49:00
subject: Re: RPi media center

On 02/08/2019 20:09, druck wrote:
> On 02/08/2019 09:51, R.Wieser wrote:
>> If you know how I can set a large font (good for TV viewing) for
>> Raspbian I
>> would be much obliged.  Currently I have to move nearer to the TV to read
>> the standard desktop text. :-\
>
> Which desktop are you running? Its possible to make the font larger in
> all the various Pi desktops (Pixel, LXDE, Mate, etc), but it requires
> editing config files on the simpler ones, where as the more
> sophisticated ones, such as Mate, have dialogs to set fonts for the
> different Window components. You'll need at least a Pi 3B to run the
> more complex desktops comfortably.
>

Running Mate on an Intel deskto[p machone couled to a TV as  a makeshift
satellelite TV i was never able to get the fonts readable at a distance
no matter what I selected. I cant remember why but siomething happened
at large fonts level that made it unreadable

> ---druck


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