I increase the font size for the application itself

Question

So I know I can change the font size of the nodes, relationships, etc but I can't figure out how to change the tiny font of the UI itself. In other words, I would like to increase the font of the properties view, is this possible?

Comments

Yes, all menus are really tiny on high-resolutions screens in Ubuntu. The app doesn't seem to obey to system-wide font scale settings.

Answer 1

Yed being a Swing application, you can change the font size of the UI by adding parameters on the command line (when using the Yed jar file).

This command line :

java -Dswing.aatext=true   \
     -Dswing.plaf.metal.controlFont="Sans-10"  \
     -Dswing.plaf.metal.userTextFont="Sans-10"  \
     -Dswing.plaf.metal.menuTextFont="Sans-10"   \
     -Dswing.plaf.metal.subTextFont="Sans-10"     \
     -Dswing.plaf.metal.systemTextFont="Sans-10"   \
     -Dswing.plaf.metal.windowTitleFont="Sans-10"   \
     -jar yed.jar
                   
reduces, for me almost all the fonts of Yed, except the font of the palette.

Comments

This is great in theory, but doesn't work well for increasing font sizes. When increasing font sizes the Properties Pane does not increase the vertical space allocated to the text under it, so the text is truncated on the top and bottom.

Answer 2

As @Orey mentionned I have wrote a bash script that contains :

#!/bin/bash

/home/me/yEd/jre/bin/java -Dswing.aatext=true  \

-Dswing.plaf.metal.controlFont="Dialog-17"   \

-Dswing.plaf.metal.userTextFont="Dialog-17" \

-Dswing.plaf.metal.userFont="Dialog-17"\

-Dswing.plaf.metal.menuTextFont="Dialog-17"\

-Dswing.plaf.metal.subTextFont="Dialog-17" \

-Dswing.plaf.metal.systemTextFont="Dialog-17"\

-Dswing.plaf.metal.windowTitleFont="Dialog-17" \

-Dawt.useSystemAAFontSettings=on \

-Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel \

-Dswing.crossplatformlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel  \

-Dswing.defaultlaf=com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel \

-jar /home/me/yEd/yed.jar

 

 

Then create a new desktop file that calls this bash script :

 

#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

[Desktop Entry]

Type=Application

Name=yEd HiFonts

Exec="/home/me/yEd/launchYed.sh"

Icon=/home/me/yEd/.install4j/yEdHiFonts.png

Categories=Application;

Name[en_GB]=yEd HiFonts.desktop

n.b : I created a new icon and call it yEdHiFonts.png

Answer 3

The solutions using swing runtime parameters do not work for me for yEd 3.20.1 on Ubuntu Mint 20 and a 4k screen.

Using run_scaled -scale=1.5 works acceptable as described in this article at Ask Ubuntu.
 

Answer 4

This, as it turns, has already been answered here:

http://yed.yworks.com/support/qa/10068/make-gui-font-size-bigger