Dave has kindly posted a DEB file now - so the instructions using "alien" above are not needed.

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About QT versus GTK styles please see - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Uniform_look_for_Qt_and_GTK_applications So I installed the gnome-tweaks app I then found "tweaks" as a app started it and

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<<I am by no means an expert - but I wanted to see how far I could get using a Ubuntu VM. As of right now, we don't have a volunteer sufficiently versed in Ubuntu or Debian to build DEB packages, AFAI

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Could someone please explain how to install and invoke the 5.2 beta release for Linux ? Thanks.

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The menu and button texts can be enlarged using techniques I outlined in a previous post using a gtk parm file. As you are a Linux user - the instructions are these - (Mac is different at V5.1.2 becau

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I installed Xtrack from the Ubuntu repository: smoothly, no errors for the install. But when I open the app in Kubuntu [which uses Qt], the menu bars are microscopic small and fuzzy. Entirely illegibl

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This has been the biggest help in using XtrkCad on my Mac! I could not figure out how to change the font size since I regularly keep my resolution at scale to 1920x1200 on my MacBook Pro. Thanks so mu

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Thank you Adam, I am on Mac 10.13.6 Hi Sierra and also on Linux . I will ask my guru to look at this and will report back in a few weeks. James.

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James?? In case others come across this - In GTK2 the font size/type used for "system" objects (like menubars) can be overridden by parameter files - where and how depends on GTK level. There was a di

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James, On Windows or Mac/Linux? Adam

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Hello, Is it possible to enlarge the size of the font in the menu bar? Zooming the main canvas has no effect on this. James

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Vic, That is set inside the program itself - the hotBar elements are drawn as graphic objects and the text is a "helvetica" set to size 8pt. The issue is that GTK thinks the screen is 96dpi, but it is

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Hi Adam, Many thanks for the help. This is what I did now and it works for the Menu Bar. I edited the startup file below (my Xtrkcad install is under /Applications/Trains) /Applications/Trains/xtrkcad

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Vic, No - it is my bad. I spent the best part of yesterday evening scratching my head as to why it wasn't working. The issue is that the package startup script is diverting GTK2 to look at a different

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Hi, I followed Adam's instructions and placed a .gtkrc-2.0 file in my macos user home directory and made the following changes but the file appears to be ignored. Am I doing something really stupid? I

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I installed 5.1.2a on my Macbook Pro with retina display (Sierra 10.12.6) and found the font sizes a lot smaller compared to 4.3.0 which I also have installed on the same mac. I noticed this because I

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Adam, Thank you. As expected, it was a Cockpit Problem. Ron

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Ron, Due to the way that GTK File finder sorts file names (UpperCase before LowerCase), the file you want is not in the screenshot you sent but is AFTER all those. Scroll down, and it is after "HO-Wil

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Adam, Using Finder, I can see into the 'params' directory you mentioned. No problem, all the Atlas HO files are there. BUT, when I open File > Parameter Files in XTrack, the ONLY Atlas files I can see

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Assuming you have only loaded the HO-Atl100ho.xtp and set in "Layout" Scale to HO and gauge to "Std 16.5mm) then the paras should be showing. If you have other HO parameter files loaded too then try t

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