How to increase text size in grist-desktop?

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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.

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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, at http://localhost:47478 by default, and then browser zoom controls work fine.
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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.

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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. :joy: