A guide to make the flatpak Shotcut user interface font larger [Solved]

[handy]

I generally use a 24" 1920x1200 display. I'm a tad short sighted (though that is improving with age, by the time I'm 90 years old I probably won't have to wear glasses), so I generally run a font size of around 21 points.

I've very recently had a need to use Shotcut again & decided to see if I could find a way to make the fonts larger, as they are really small by default on my display.

I installed a flatpak from flathub this time (MX wouldn't work & I couldn't be bothered fixing it - probably a repo thing or something). So because it was a flatpak, things are a bit weird with the "sandbox" & all. So I thought I'd start by looking at changing a flatpak theme & then move into the trickier territory of changing the font size.

Thankfully I've been saved from having to continue pursuing this method. :D The lead mod on the Shotcut forum told me to try starting Shotcut like this:

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flatpak run org.shotcut.Shotcut --QT_SCALE_FACTOR 2

I did, & it magnified Shotcut to being too large for my screen. It did put a smile on my face though.

So then I tried the following:

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flatpak run org.shotcut.Shotcut --QT_SCALE_FACTOR 1.5

& it worked! It is now the perfect size user interface, & everything fits on my screen.

Hopefully this information will be of use to others who have a similar eyesight problem to myself.

The next question is, does this method work with other flatpak packages too? I would guess that there will be winners & looser's there. I suppose I'll have to test it out.

[handy]

I've discovered that I can run sizes larger than fit on the screen with Shotcut, like --QT_SCALE_FACTOR 2 as long as I manually hit the window size gadget & make it as large as can be. When you do that the window locks to the top title bar & everything is positioned inside the monitors display.

I also tried a few other flatpak's but none of them would accept the --QT_SCALE_FACTOR 1.5 (or whatever number). Which is a shame, it would have been a nice easy way out for those of us that like larger fonts.