I’m running grist-desktop on a Debian 12 system and, on my 4k display, the text is tiny. As I’m almost into my eighties now I need bigger text! How can I increase the size of the text please.
Oh gosh. The app is built with Electron, which just wraps a browser, but I see the regular browser hotkeys for zoom don’t work. Sorry about that!
Some disappointing workarounds:
- Do view->Toggle Developer Tools, then write something like
document.body.style.zoom = "125%";
- it will zoom for whatever you have open, but it won’t stick unfortunately. - Alternatively, if you are on your own private network and don’t have concerns about security, you could run Grist with
GRIST_DESKTOP_AUTH=none
set in your environment (see README for description of what it means). Then you can access Grist from a browser, athttp://localhost:47478
by default, and then browser zoom controls work fine.
GRIST_DESKTOP_AUTH=none works pretty well, I’m running grist-desktop on a home LAN with mostly just me as the user so I think it’s OK as regards security.
I have my browser’s minimum text size set large enough so it ‘just works’ without any further messing about.
Thank you.
I guess I should have read through all of the desktop documentation before going down the self-hosted route.
I wish I had known about this voodoo magic several months ago.