How can I increase font size in program menus?

I am new on this forum and can't figure out how to edit my post. So I hope this can be considered my edit.

I am using several CAD programs in Windows XP, KeyCAD, CMS Intellicad, AutoCAD. In all I set my window setup to use "Extra Large" menu fonts, rather than "Large" or "Normal". Right now I am looking at Wine Internet Explorer. The font of the window is 12pt set in LinuxMint, this is o.k. Under Wine HQ I see "Wine Forums" This font is about 1/2 as high and under "Board Index >> Wine HQ >> Wine Help" I see (just barely) Date and time, about 1/2 as high as high as "Wine forums. Double the size of these fonts and it would be about right for my CAD programs. Is there a plan to provide a similar choice of font size as in Windows XP?

Switching back and forth by rebooting between Linux and Windows what I want to avoid, and of course eyestrain in Wine, even though the programs work o.k. is a killer.

winecfg does have a font size option, you might try that.

But you won't be spending much time in Wine's internet explorer clone,
and fonts are unlikely to be your worst problem.
Better to see which (if any) of the CAD progarms Wine runs, and see
what the real problems are there.

Thanks for the reply Dan.

I have tried winecfg. It does not increase menu font size.

In Windows XP the way it is done is to right click on the desktop.
A menu pops up for "Display Properties".
Select "Appearance". Then select "Fonts". The choices are "Normal", this is what is default and what wine uses; "Large" and "Extra Large".

I use "Extra Large" on my 1080 x 1920 display so I do not have to get up close and put on my close-up glasses to see the text. This is not a problem with games. Incidentally, both wine and Crossover work equally well on all of my programs for engineering, but perhaps not as well and on XP.

Add these lines to ~/.wine/drive_c/windows/win.ini :
[Desktop]
MenuFontSize=12
MessageFontSize=12
StatusFontSize=12
IconTitleSize=12

Guy

Thanks for the reply Guy. Your suggestion sounded good but did not work. I wonder how XP does this. I am going to go into
XP and see if I can get a clue. One thing I notice is that they do not call out font size by number.

Phil

This suggestion worked for me:
http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-us ... 27896.html



Search for "LogPixels" there. You will see something like this:
"LogPixels"=dword:00000060

Change 60 to something more suitable. For example this is what I use with my
two displays (one with resolution 1680x1050 and another one with 1280x1024):

"LogPixels"=dword:00000095