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I'm using X1C gen 7 4k, xfce, lightdm, uefi & grub install

Arch wiki wrote:

Gimp 2.10 To fix toolbar icon sizes, update Preferences->Interface->Icon Theme->Custom icon size to huge or other value. If menu fonts are still too small you can update an existing theme by copying it from /usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes into ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/themes/ and changing gtk-font-name and font_name in gtkrc into something bigger like Sans 30. Then select the new theme from Preferences > Interface > Theme. When copying make sure to rename the new directory into something different from the original name (example Dark > DarkHighDPI). You can also try using gimp-hidpi (installation instructions are outdated and refer to version 2.8, in Gimp 2.10 the theme should be installed into ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/themes/)

I've done all the above to no avail, nothing changed. I'm not sure where to go from here.

What I did exactly was:

  1. changed the settings in preferences and made the icon size huge.

    1. mkdir ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/themes/DarkHighDPI

  2. from within

    /usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes/Dark

I

sudo cp -r gtkrc ui ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/themes/DarkHighDPI

  1. I edited the gtkrc file with sans 30 for both the gtk-font-name and font_name

  2. Then from within the gimp program again I changed the theme settings to DarkHighDPI

  3. rebooted my laptop started gimp, still no change.

  4. I restored a timeshift backup to revert all changes I had made.

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I apologise for wasting your time. The correct way of doing it is what I did in the beginning but.....when editing the sans 30 the line has to be uncommented.

bad error on my part.

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Tested with GIMP 2.8.22 on Ubuntu 18.04 (XFCE), so I don't know if this works with your version on Arch.

  1. Copy the default theme to ~/.gimp-2.8/themes/HiDPI:

    mkdir -p ~/.gimp-2.8/themes
cp -a /usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes/Default ~/.gimp-2.8/themes/HiDPI

  2. Edit ~/.gimp-2.8/themes/HiDPI/gtkrc and add a line font_name = "sans 30" (copied and adjusted from the "Small" theme):

    ...
  stock["gtk-dialog-warning"] =
    {
      { "images/stock-warning-64.png", *, *, "gtk-dialog" }
    }

  ### this line was added ###
  font_name = "sans 30"

  GtkPaned::handle-size             = 6
  GimpDockWindow::default-height    = 300
  GimpDock::font-scale              = 0.8333
  GimpMenuDock::minimal-width       = 200
...

  3. Open GIMP, go to Edit -> Preferences -> Theme and select theme HiDPI.

    Result: GIMP menu Sans 30

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  • On the arch wiki it says [quote=wiki]You can also try using gimp-hidpi (installation instructions are outdated and refer to version 2.8, in Gimp 2.10 the theme should be installed into ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/themes/)[/quote]
    – Dropinthesea
    Oct 27, 2020 at 21:23
  • So I'm pretty sure it won't work for me. I will try again tomorrow using the mkdir cmd with the -p flag and the cp with the -a flag. lol i'm very new to linux I don't really know/understand those flags yet. I think the -p flag makes parent directories, but I don't know what that means.Thank you for your reply.
    – Dropinthesea
    Oct 27, 2020 at 21:32
  • Yep, haven't tried gimp-hidpi. And my theme wasn't detected in ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/themes/, I guess it was the wrong config directory for my GIMP version since my ~/.gimp-2.8 contains lots of files and directories. Use ~/.config/GIMP/2.10/themes/ instead if that works for you. The -p flag creates both directories ~/.gimp-2.8 and ~/.gimp-2.8/themes if they don't already exist and cp -a copies recursively preserving attributes and links (archive mode).
    – Freddy
    Oct 27, 2020 at 22:06
  • Thanks about the flags. thats the issue it doesn't seem to be working for me. I did think that cp -r was to copy recursively though
    – Dropinthesea
    Oct 27, 2020 at 22:15
  • I could be doing it wrong, not sure. I did it the way I mentioned in my post. I didn't know how to copy the whole directory and change the name at the other end. Thats why I made the directory first and then went into the default theme directory and copied from there
    – Dropinthesea
    Oct 27, 2020 at 22:16

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