Tiny fonts problems, menues & settings
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Hi! I just installed notepad++ since I’m so tired of notepad not doing dark mode. And I’ve got the flu and the light gives me a headache.
Almost couldn’t set dark mode due to tiny text. I googled and sized up my windows font so now everything else is huge - definitely too big. The menu in notepad++ is now an ok size… lol (I won’t be able to keep this huge font size for other apps!!)
The font in settings is still the tiniest ever though!!! Look at the screenshot.Is there a way around this or should I just skip notepad++ and go for something better? Seriouslly! I found complains about this from 2017! Still not fixed. I get that it’s open source but do people really love the tiny tiny font or is there a fix for it?
This is crazy big text so now I’m lowering the font size again as the window hardly fits in the browser! The font size in the menus will be too small again.
Please solve these two problems!
Thank you!!
/Sofia
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@Sofia-Engvall ,
I don’t see the problem, and honestly, your description of the problem is rather vague. Which text are you talking about? The Dialog box? The menu? The text in the documents? The tab bar? The dialog box text unless someone knows otherwise, is pretty standard. The text of your document can change, but you need to look in the right places and the right dialogs.Have you read the Online User Manual? Check there for settings. There are multiple places to change things in NPP in the Preferences…, Style Configurator, etc…so you need to read up and maybe experiment to see what changes what, so you can customize the UI to what you want, and then ask if there’s something that can be changed. As it is, I’m not sure what it is you want changed from your description. If it is the Menus/Dialog boxes, again, unless someone knows otherwise, I don’t think they are able to be changed. If that is a deal breaker for you, then you might just need to seek a better tool for yourself elsewhere. No sense using something that doesn’t meet your needs.
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This must have something to do with high-DPI scaling. I don’t know enough to say exactly what to do, but maybe I can point you in the right direction.
First, just to confirm: you are using a high-DPI monitor, right? At Start Menu | Settings | System | Display under Scale and layout, the “size of text, apps and other items” is greater than 100%?
Are you using the 32-bit version of Notepad++ or the 64-bit version? You should probably be using the 64-bit version, though I don’t know if that has any effect on this problem.
Right-click the shortcut you use to open Notepad++ and select Properties; then select the Compatibility tab. It is possible that either the Compatibility mode setting or the settings behind the “Change high DPI settings” button will help. I don’t know enough to suggest which settings to try and I don’t have a high DPI monitor here to test, but this really sounds like a high-DPI problem.
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I have 1080 monitors so I don’t have scaling activated normally but I did activate it for this test. That’s what I meant with “sized up my windows font” for this screenshot. All other text in all other programs gets too big then and the settings text is not affected anyway.
I use the 64-bit version.
I know other application have these problems too. My 15 yo used mcreator to make minecraft mods. It has the same problem. All other programs I have installed have the right proportions.
I don’t mean to complain. Just to know if this problem is being looked into. If not I’ll probably give up and use another tool <3 Or make my own since I only need the functionality of notepad but with dark mode.
Thank you! <3
/Sofia
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@Sofia-Engvall said in Tiny fonts problems, menues & settings:
I have 1080 monitors so I don’t have scaling activated normally but I did activate it for this test. That’s what I meant with “sized up my windows font” for this screenshot. All other text in all other programs gets too big then and the settings text is not affected anyway.
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I know other application have these problems too. My 15 yo used mcreator to make minecraft mods. It has the same problem. All other programs I have installed have the right proportions.Not a high-DPI problem then. I wish I had any other guesses, but I can’t think of what it would be. Since it does happen in at least one other program, though, and most of us have never seen it, there must be something uncommon in these programs that interacts with something unusual about your system.
I don’t mean to complain. Just to know if this problem is being looked into. If not I’ll probably give up and use another tool <3 Or make my own since I only need the functionality of notepad but with dark mode.
Up to you, of course, but if you have the skill to make your own — and since you have the problem on your system, so you can readily reproduce the problem — perhaps you would consider looking at the code on Github and trying to find the fix? That would solve it for you and (assuming the developer accepts your pull request) others as well.
I’m sorry I have no easier ideas, though perhaps someone else will.
