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How to scale desktop icons in 18.04
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Ubuntu 18.04 with Unity Desktop
If you are using the Unity Desktop the most comprehensive method is font scaling which includes icons, title bars and other UI elements. To install it use:
sudo apt install unity-tweak-tool
Then call it from the command line or Dash. The settings I’m using for scaling on a 1920x1080 monitor are:
The Text scaling factor scales fonts and menu bars Icon size is preset but the text size under it increases giving the illusion the icon size changed:
In the .gif above scaling starts at 1.38 on a 1920x1080 monitor. Then it is changed to 1 and everything gets tiny, which is normal. Then it is changed to 2 which is ideal for the visually challenged. Once again the icons have fixed pixel size and the font shrinking or expanding under the icon gives the illusion their size is changing.
Others may be interested in the full suite of “tweak” tools available for installing under 18.04 LTS:
$ apt list | grep tweak
gajim-rostertweaks/bionic,bionic 1.0.0-3 all
gnome-tweak-tool/bionic,bionic 3.28.1-1 all
gnome-tweaks/bionic,bionic 3.28.1-1 all
mate-tweak/bionic,bionic 18.04.16-1 all
mousetweaks/bionic,bionic,now 3.12.0-4 amd64 [installed]
tweak/bionic 3.02-2 amd64
unity-tweak-tool/bionic,bionic,now 0.0.7ubuntu4 all [installed]