gui-scale

gui-scale is a simple tool that scales GTK or Qt applications easily. It uses the native scaling variables provided by the GTK and Qt frameworks.

The tool simply checks for the right one being used, so you don't have to remember or know which one uses what GUI framework.

Global Installation Instructions

A global installation makes sure your DE can also run the tool easily, or any other user logged into the system for that matter.

I recommend having a bin directory in your home folder. Following command checks for it existence and if not, it creates it.

cd $HOME/bin || mkdir $HOME/bin

Now it is time to get scale and symbolically link it to your /usr/local/bin directory, so users as well as the DE can run it easily.

git clone https://github.com/dhhdev/gui-scale $HOME/bin

sudo ln -s $HOME/bin/gui-scale/gui-scale.sh /usr/local/bin/gui-scale

Now, to make sure we can run it, we change the mode of the file we have symbolically linked.

chmod 755 $HOME/bin/scale/scale.sh

To make the tool visible to the terminal, you'll have to restart it. If you want the tool to be picked up by the DE itself - for example using Custom Shortcuts on a KDE system. You'll have to reboot, restart your DM or log out and in to the system again.