Font size of apps is too small, Hyprland

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This thread is closest to my issue.

As of May 14, 2025, I’m running Garuda Linux / Hyprland Edition.

The font sizes in apps like Thunar are way too small on my high-res screen.

Trying to figure out how to adjust and I’ve landed on “edit the gtk.css” but the Garuda install has config dirs for gtk2.0, gitk 3.0, and gtk 4.0.

How do I know which one to edit? Which one takes precedence?

Anyone tweaked the GUI defaults in Hyprland?

Best,

M

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Check the settings and edit 1 to 1.5 or 2

I moved your post, please add here your garuda-inxi.

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Thunar seems to be a GTK 3 based application in Garuda Hyprland. Add the GTK CSS configuration to ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css file, creating that file if it does not exist.

I set a font size of 16 pixels that works well for both my 5k2k external display and 1920x1080 HD laptop display.

/* Set font size for thunar file manager */
.thunar { font-size: 16pt }

If the system has two monitors of different resolutions, a monitor definition for each display should be added to .config/hypr/hyprland.config or a monitors.conf which is sourced by hyprland.conf

Without specific monitor definitions it could be challenging to find a gkt.css font-size that would work for multiple displays.

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# See https://wiki.hyprland.org/Configuring/Monitors/

# External Dell Monitor
# DP-2 - Dell Monitor 5k2k via DisplayLink
monitor= DP-2, 5120x2160, 0x0, 1

# Laptop Monitor
monitor= eDP-1, 1920x1080@60.02000, 2810x2160, 1.00

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It doesn’t make any sence to post some sentences as issue without providing the required details like garuda-inxi .

The user didn’t replied for a long time , hence this thread can be locked IG …

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