[dba-Tech] Linux question

[rockysmolin bchacc.com]

Click on the desktop so it has the focus. Hold down the Ctrl key. And use the mouse scroll wheel to make them bigger and smaller

Rocky

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From: dba-Tech [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of John Colby
Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2020 8:57 PM
To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Linux question

I've been to Taxco.  Been to Michoacan, winter home of the  Monarch
butterflies,  lived in Puebla for 5 years.  I've been many places in
Mexico, but never  Zihuatanejo.  Doesn't even look easy to get to.

On Fri, Aug 7, 2020 at 11:36 AM Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
wrote:

> One of my several computers runs the current Mint. I'm a few months shy of
> 73yo, and as was to be expected, virtually all body parts as well as the
> cerebellum are slowly disintegrating -- I used to be smart, and now all I
> have left is long-term memory. I can remember birthdays of my siblings and
> close friends, and even the serial number of my first bicycle, but ask me
> what I had for breakfast yesterday and all I have is anductive guess based
> on previous behaviour: probably *huevos rancheros*, which I learned how to
> prepare from a cook in Zihuatanejo. But I digress.
> It's simple enough to control the size of the Linux icons. It seems a lot
> more problematic to adjust the icon size of apps. Changing the size of the
> desktop is not inherited by the resident apps, so how do I achieve that? I
> want the icons etc. within, say, LibreOffice, be be large enough for me to
> read them without a magnifying glass.
> Anyone know how to achieve this?
>
>
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