Hi all,

I'm using the last boincmgr available, version 5.1.8. But the font size it's using is so small that I can barely read it. Do you know how I can fix that?

thanks

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I still have the same problem with 5.2.1. Anyone can help?

Thanks

After classic was turned off, I finally switched
to boinc (5.2.13) and am now using it, mostly
successfully ... but have exactly the same
problem: The font size is way to small to be
legible. This is on SUSE 9.1 (Linux). Anyone
have any clews how to make the boincmgr usable
to people with less-than-perfect vision?

I don't know how helpful this will be, but I ran into a similar problem some time ago that effected all GTK based apps. It also effects boincmgr. This is what corrected the small font problem for me on a Debian machine.

The fix was in the .gtkrc file. It can be in the user's home directory as .gtkrc, or if it doesn't exist for a given user, /etc/gtk directory as gtkrc. The /etc/gtk directory on Debian contains many configuration files and gtkrc is a symbolic link to one of those many others.
In my case, gtkrc is a symlink to gtkrc.iso-8859-15, also in the /etc/gtk directory.
I'm afraid I don't recall how things were linked or set up when the small font problem was occuring, but making gtkrc.iso-8859-15 the 'file to use' made things quite readable in all apps. Also, making manual changes to the font definitions in gtkrc will provide some relief, but require a little more of a learning curve.

The exact locations of the GTK related files may vary from system to system, and some may even have some sort of automated means of selecting the config file to use. So it will take a little snooping around to find where and how things should be done. Google will likely come in handy.

This may not be the magic bullet, but at least in my situation the need for the 'coke bottle bottom' glasses was eliminated by making the changes to gtkrc.

Hope this provides a little help.