So, I switched to using i3 as my daily driver about a year ago after using Cinnamon almost exclusively. It’s been great! I love it! Made me try a bunch of other WMs but now I’ve settled. One thing I noticed but didn’t really care about is the fact that the text for some apps - dunst, dolphin, etc. …

Finally got around to trying to fix this again and did so successfully. :mega: The fix? Copy my downloaded/custom themes from .themes, .icons, and .config/kvantum to the root folder. That’s it! It was really that easy the whole time. :sweat_smile: Now, dolphin and dunst, and even qt5ct are renderi…

Strangely enough, even though dunst has an independent config, it still responds to the different environments with text at different sizes. It may just be fractional scaling like you mentioned. But what is very strange about it is that I set the font to Open Sans 8 (which is very small), and yet my…

So I did set QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME qt5ct and the terminal didn’t return any errors. Then I also put --platformtheme qt5ct as an argument to launch Dolphin. Neither worked. Even logged out and restarted. Did I do something wrong? I’ve actually never set an environment variable before. I just followe…

Did some more reading here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and_GTK_applications Tried set DESKTOP_SESSION qt5ct. No luck. Will look at this another time. It’s time for food. :yum:

If you had configured fonts etc in qt5ct and passed the argument to the program i.e: dolphin --platformtheme qt5ct It should pick up the settings. I have just put: export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct in my ~/.xprofile as I’m using lightdm and it sources this file upon login. Remember to always pu…

per user and if you run i3 using a DM… best way is to use ~/.xprofile with this: export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct and use qt5ct to set the wanted font and size (e.t.c.) [2023-10-18_12-31_1] If you want both qt5 and qt 6 applications using the changes better go to add export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTH…

[image] joekamprad: per user and if you run i3 using a DM… best way is to use ~/.xprofile with this: export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct [image] kraker: I have just put: export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt5ct in my ~/.xprofile To confirm this is what I should do right? [image] I’ve tried…

I do use exactly this two methods both working for me: ~/.xprofile export QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt6ct and /etc/environment QT_QPA_PLATFORMTHEME=qt6ct But i do use this together with kvantum manager… Currently seems the best way to apply theming consistency over gtk and qt apps…

Yeah… So it looks like my QT apps just don’t like me. :smiling_face_with_tear: I downloaded qt6ct, set it up from scratch with all the same fonts and settings, but still no luck. I use Kvantum too. Would zsh/bash affect this? I know it shouldn’t because as far as I know, those are just for termina…

on my i3 setup i use zsh too… but graphical env should not be related to shell env stuff… [image] anon93652015: To be clear, the themes are just fine. It’s just the text sizing that’s different. text sizing in qt5 apps? or both qt5 and qt6?

[image] joekamprad: but graphical env should not be related to shell env stuff… Thought so. [image] joekamprad: text sizing in qt5 apps? or both qt5 and qt6? The only app that I know for sure is Qt6 would be qbittorrent. Just checked the sizing - it’s actually correct. So, it’s probab…

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