Advice on GUI configuration for Old Eyes

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Hey Folks,

I love my uconsole but because my eyes have been getting worse the default text sizing is almost unreadable for me. I have the Devterm as well and it’s much better in that regards. Anyone have advice on how to balance screen real estate with font readability?

All suggestions including alternate DE’s are welcome!

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In kde’s display settings, there’s a UI scaling option that works well.

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Good idea forgot about that. How’s KDE performance wise though?

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Performance has been good. I’ve been running plasma on most my under powered stuff over the last year. I didn’t notice much of a difference coming from lxde except for memory usage, which is still modest. I only went a hair over 2 gigs compiling the kernel on a kde desktop. The Linux Experiment recently did a video comparing performance between DE’s that confirmed my unbenchmarked experience where the TLDR was performance is basically the same for all of them with the only real difference being a small amount of memory.

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On my devterm I’m using a pretty stripped down desktop environment.

  • Started out with using wayland, and the sway compositor.
  • I’ve set up sway to try to maximise screen real estate for one, maybe two windows. Windows have no border. And I set up the bar to be hidden - it appears when I hold down the mod key, and is translucent and appears over the top of the window I’m showing.
  • On the devterm with its wide screen it also helps to set sway’s default_orientation to horizontal, so it will create new windows side-by-side. But that’s probably irrelevant for uconsole.
  • And then have a look for good fonts that render well at small sizes. I like Iosevka - the Term variant is good for fixed-width on terminals and my text editor. And the Iosevka Aile quasi-proportional variant looks good for a sans-serif proportional font, but I haven’t yet tried to switch my browser to it.
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Wayland/xorg support HiDpi nowadays (waylands does it better)

So if want to scale interface you can reverse HiDpi to LowDpi and it should does the trick: Making sure you're not a bot!

Just scale it other direction