Just like the title says, I'm trying to change the font size in Notepad++ to what it should be.
I don't know why it's so huge.
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Sign up to join this communityJust like the title says, I'm trying to change the font size in Notepad++ to what it should be.
I don't know why it's so huge.
You can check out the "Reduce" option in Settings > Preferences > General > Tab Bar (section).
In Notepad++ (6.5) the size setting for tab labels is in Settings > Preferences > Tab Settings, although this appears to be a setting for formatting within documents.
Hopefully one of those settings will help.
You can also change the size of font in Notepad++ by holding Ctrl + scroll with mouse wheel.
This is done in the Style Configurator:
Goto Menu
> Settings
> Style Configurator
Set Font size
Check Enable global font size
Press Save & Close
Enable global font size
. An important step I missed first time around :-)
Jul 14, 2016 at 13:40
The font size in the TAB bar TABS is controlled by the following WidgetStyle lines in the stylers.xml.
If you decide to edit your stylers.xml file to see if it will affect your Notepad++ tab bars, be sure to make a backup copy in case you mess up the xml and need to return to the original code file. Just be sure that there is a space between the last parameter and /> otherwise you may find that something else broke and Notepad++ is not listening to your instructions.
Just to be clear; I did not find the following modifications to have an affect on the text size of the TAB BAR.
The 4 lines to edit are as follows:
<WidgetStyle name="Active tab focused indicator" styleID="0" fgColor="FAAA3C" />
<WidgetStyle name="Active tab unfocused indicator" styleID="0" fgColor="FFCAB0" />
<WidgetStyle name="Active tab text" styleID="0" fgColor="000000" />
<WidgetStyle name="Inactive tabs" styleID="0" fgColor="000000" bgColor="C0C0C0" />
As you can see, there is no fontsize = "" parameter and that needs to be added as follows.
To make the change, add fontsize= to each of the lines as follows.
<WidgetStyle name="Active tab focused indicator" styleID="0" fgColor="FAAA3C" fontSize="14" />
<WidgetStyle name="Active tab unfocused indicator" styleID="0" fgColor="FFCAB0" fontSize="14" />
<WidgetStyle name="Active tab text" styleID="0" fgColor="000000" fontSize="14" />
<WidgetStyle name="Inactive tabs" styleID="0" fgColor="000000" bgColor="C0C0C0" fontSize="14" />
Just another disclaimer; I found that making the changes in this post had no affect on the size of the texts displayed in the Notepad++ TAB Bar.
Quite honestly, I would like the text size of the entire GUI to be adjustable as the higher the resolution of a monitor, the smaller every thing becomes and Operating systems, including open source OSes such as Linux, do an extremely poor job of dealing with that problem. The end result is that as the quality of one's eyesight degrades, the more difficult it is for one to see what's on the monitor and to easily utilize one's computer.
What's worse, the harder it is for one to see what's on the monitor, the more one's eyes strain, and the more one's eyes strain, the more one's eyesight degrades.
As far as the magnifier tool that Microsoft put in Windows is concerned, that tool is a complete joke as it totally messes up the layout of the desktop every time it is started. After it is shut off, you have to go through and rearrange the desktop because it won't do that for you.