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I installed Wine on Ubuntu for the sole purpose of running Notepad++ on Ubuntu, but the GUI fonts and icons are so small they are unreadable.

Below is a full screenshot of my 75" screen (TV as monitor): enter image description here

As you can see, the GUI font and icon sizes make it basically unusable.

I installed Wine using snap. I found that it could also be installed using apt, so I did a test wine install using that, but the only version of Notepad++ using apt version of wine is 6.x.x, which is only 32 bit and way too old, and I cannot install any plugins or upgrade it.

I tried changing the DPI setting using a snap instance of the winecfg tool, but it has no effect on my snap instance of Notepad++. I also found a number of versions of wine and winecfg:

  • /snap/wine-platform-3-stable
  • /snap/wine-platform-5-stable
  • /snap/wine-platform-6-stable
  • /snap/wine-platform-7-devel-core20
  • /snap/wine-platform-runtime
  • /snap/wine-platform-runtime-core20

I am not sure why these are all installed, nor am I sure which instance is being 'used' by /snap/notepad-plus-plus.

Any help on which wine instance is used and how to fix the Notepad++ GUI font and icon size would be gratefully received.

skeetastax
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Maybe try to use the apt version instead? I used this guide to install wine Wine installation guide on Ubuntu and its deriviative(s) and winecfg's DPI option works!

Image of it working

Also, the odd black texts is probably a side effect of a custom Windows XP theme that someone made. The link that i use to get the theme

Wine 9.0 works fine for me using the guide. proof that wine 9.0 works fine

Kenzie Shane Setiawan
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