{"id":5700,"date":"2025-09-15T23:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T23:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/?p=5700"},"modified":"2026-02-03T17:52:45","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T17:52:45","slug":"eclipse-icon-and-font-size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/2025\/09\/15\/eclipse-icon-and-font-size\/","title":{"rendered":"Eclipse IDE icon (and font) size"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For teaching (and for my eyes on a 4K screen), I need sometimes the Eclipse IDE with larger icons and UI fonts (while the editor fonts can be easily adjusted within the Eclipse preferences, namely by adjusting <code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">Text Font<\/code>, the icons cannot and while the UI fonts should be adjustable via Gnome settings, this did not work on my KDE\/Plasma system).<\/p>\n<p>What works for me (with X11 -- Wayland is a different thing) is described in <a href=\"https:\/\/linux-blog.anracom.com\/2024\/08\/28\/eclipse-too-small-icons-on-high-dpi-screens-workaround-for-kde-plasma-by-scaling-on-x11-and-wayland\/\">https:\/\/linux-blog.anracom.com\/2024\/08\/28\/eclipse-too-small-icons-on-high-dpi-screens-workaround-for-kde-plasma-by-scaling-on-x11-and-wayland\/<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>In the KDE display settings (at the very bottom of the configuration dialogue): set <em>Global scale<\/em> to 125% or 150%.<\/li>\n<li>(Re-)Start eclipse via\n<pre><code class=\"\" data-line=\"\"> GDK_DPI_SCALE=0.5 GDK_SCALE=2 .\/eclipse &amp;<\/code><\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I also have in my home directory a <code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">.gtkrc-2.0<\/code> file and need to find out whether deleting it would change anything (i.e. global KDE\/Plasma font size setting might then be used, but as long as <code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">.gtkrc-2.0<\/code> exists, this might override the KDE\/Plasma font size setting) -- same applies for the <code class=\"\" data-line=\"\">gnome-tweaks<\/code> command.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For teaching (and for my eyes on a 4K screen), I need sometimes the Eclipse IDE with larger icons and UI fonts (while the editor fonts can be easily adjusted within the Eclipse preferences, namely by adjusting Text Font, the icons cannot and while the UI fonts should be adjustable via Gnome settings, this did [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":512,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[139469],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/512"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5700"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6124,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5700\/revisions\/6124"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uni.hi.is\/helmut\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}