ability to change font size

[rockneverdies55]

It would be nice to have an option to increase/decrease font size for the app.

Having shortcut keys helping with that would be even better. :-)

[rodrigok]

We can try to enable the zoom like you do in web browsers. What do you think?

[rockneverdies55]

Since zoom changes the layout of the page too (everything on the page gets bigger and most of the time uglier), it's not ideal.
But I guess it's better than nothing till we have an optimal solution.

[rodrigok]

Another option should be implemented in Rocket.Chat it self, so what we can do in Electron is enable the native zoom.

[willow9886]

Just to provide some quick steps to increase/decrease text size in the desktop app:

to increase: ctrl shift +

to decrease: ctrl -

[Elendev]

Hello,

What if ctrl shift + doesn't work, is there an other way to do this on the settings ? ^^"

I'm on an Ubuntu 16.04 and the font of the chat app became really really small :-/

[Elendev]

What if ctrl shift + doesn't work, is there an other way to do this on the settings ? ^^"

It looks like it's a mapping issue : I'm using a swiss-french keyboard and the + is on the 1. I've tried with the ^ button and it did work well.

[dfaure-kdab]

I'm confused. I'm using rocketchat-2.17.2 (the desktop client, on Linux), and no amount of Ctrl + or Ctrl - changes the font size or zoom. I tried with and without shift (FR keyboard, the + is indeed accessible with "Shift ="), I also tried with the numerical keyboard. Has the feature been backed out since? Is it not available on Linux?

[jshumaker]

It works for me on Linux, using Ubuntu Snap though, also a View menu that has the same options. However.. once you're a non-standard size I find scrolling all sorts of messed up. When it shows someone is typing it scrolls, when they stop it doesn't scroll back the proper amount. Then auto-scroll gets disabled. Effectively makes this solution not worth it.

[dfaure-kdab]

This issue should be reopened then, shouldn't it?

[jeanfbrito]

I think that this kind of stuff need to be implemented on Rocket.Chat side. The Electron is just a web client. You would need to increase font size on the Rocket.Chat web application to solve it even on browser. If this is an issue yet, of course.

[t-my]

macOS: view -> zoom in/out or cmd + or cmd - does nothing.

Is this broken?