Thanks for the corrections about the use of this forum user interface.
My tiled table window uses the entire vertical dimension of my screen, one record on each of 74 lines on my screen. That makes the characters pretty small. I want to know how to increase the font size so that, say, maybe 50 records are displayed in the total vertical screen size, making the characters larger and easier to see. I don’t want zooming, and it’s not available anyway (as you show above) in my table view.
Ok. There’s the problem. You are talking about viewing a table not anything to do with a form. I know of no way to change font size when viewing tables. But that is not the real problem. I believe this is because of the tiling. It is squeezing the table size you had before you put it into a panel. You should (don’t use tiling so just imagining here) go full screen with the table view, reduce its’ size by dragging sides or corners then place back in paneled area.
For further clarification, there is no zoom menu option under the View menu tab when looking at a table in my system. That’s what I meant when I said that zoom does not work for a table- it is simply not an available option through the Base menu interface. I was hoping someone would tell me a key combo, menu option or configuration option for increasing the font size when viewing a table.
I checked again on a Windows7 machine, and it is no different from my Linux tiled window system. So the issue is not due to tiling on the tiled window manager.
Maybe the real lesson for me to learn here is… perhaps it is not so common for people to spend time viewing tables. Perhaps most people rely on forms and/or reports, and I should become more comfortable with using them instead of relying on table views. That’s another product of being a beginner and not having a clear picture of what to expect in terms of the power and common use of certain features.
So you are saying the table shows OK on a Windows 7 machine?
Also, can’t you change the resolution in a tiled area? This may be another potential problem.
I see in the the i3 guide you can also change fonts. Again, it appears it is something in the tiling program.
Yea, I could probably change the i3 system font, but that’s not the solution I was asking for. I was asking if there was a way to change the font in Base for viewing the tables. The “problem” isn’t in the tiling window manager, since, evidently, there isn’t such a control in the Windows7 version either- evidently is simply isn’t a feature of the Base program.
What monitor resolution are you using?
I stand somewhat red faced. Didn’t really know what i3 was. Thought was add-on. It a desktop. Installed it on Mint 18 and did many things with tables (although this may be last time I use it). No problems viewing tables. Since you haven’t stated previously, I’m guessing you are running Ubuntu. Reason - tried it (v14.x - 16.4 Unity) and each time I had a problem with tiny font sizes. Made it near impossible to work with base. Once the system font size was changed, all aps worked better.
@Ratslinger Thanks for your help! You are a smart & tenacious guy! BTW- I really love i3wm, I have been using it with Debian (not Ubuntu) for years. Highly configurable, very well supported, and you can configure it to use floating windows if you want (I don’t). It’s geared for people who prefer keyboard over mouse, and who want a lot of control over their desktop. And I like that all the configuration is in a simple text file which is easily edited.
I know you have a result for what you need, but to me it doesn’t solve the problem. Have Debian (testing only - don’t like that either) and will see about trying i3 later. If I find anything I’ll let you know.
Last post on this. Tried i3 on Debian (they really need to clean up their little problems). Using LO v5.2.3.3 I could not duplicate your problem. BTW I am using a monitor with 1366x768 resolution. All text, no matter what, is displayed without. Again, the only other time I had that type of problem was Ubuntu out-of-the-box. And there a change in system font size resolved the problem. i3 is not for me - reminds me too much of Windows running under DOS.