This section describes how to customize specific components of the desktop individually.
The desktop themes do not affect the desktop background. Therefore to modify the desktop background to complement your desktop, you must customize the desktop background separately using the Desktop Background preference tool. To start the Desktop Background preference tool,choose Applications ▸ Desktop Preferences ▸ Desktop Background.
The size of the icons that are displayed on the desktop background is controlled by the Nautilus file manager. To change the size of the icons, perform the following steps:
This section describes how to customize the font settings for the desktop and frequently-used applications.
If you have difficulty with the default font type and font size that is used on the desktop and desktop background, you can customize the font settings to suit your needs.
You can specify individual font settings for the following desktop components and applications:
The Font preference tool allows you to specify the default fonts for the desktop.
To start the Font preference tool, choose Applications ▸ Desktop Preferences ▸ Font. The Font Preferences dialog contains the following options:
Click on this button to select a default font to use for the text that is displayed on the desktop, including the text displayed on the windows and dialogs associated with GNOME-compliant applications and applets.
If you use the Theme preference tool to select a theme that modifies the application font, the theme setting overrides the font that you select using the Font preference tool.
Click on this button to select a font to use for the text that is displayed on the desktop background only.
If you use large fonts, you may need to change the size of panes in applications that use panes such as, Nautilus file manager and Yelp.
By default, the Terminal application uses the default font settings that are specified in the Font preference tool to display the text in the Terminal window components such as the titlebar, toolbar, menubar, and application dialogs. However, Terminal uses fixed-width fonts to display the contents of the Terminal window, that is the text that is displayed at the command line.
To change the font settings for the contents of the Terminal window, start the Terminal application, then choose Edit ▸ Current Profile. In the General tabbed section, specify a font for the window contents as follows:
By default, the gedit application uses the default font settings that are specified in the Font preference tool to display the text in the gedit window components such as the menubar, toolbar, and application dialogs. However, you can customize the font that gedit uses to display the text editor window contents. To customize the font settings for the gedit window contents, perform the following steps:
In the gedit application, choose Edit ▸ Preferences.
In the Preferences dialog, select the Fonts & Colors category.
Perform one of the following steps:
By default, the Nautilus file manager uses the default font settings that are specified in the Font preference tool to display the text in the file manager window. However, you can further customize the font that is used in the file manager view pane. To customize the font that is used in the view pane, click on the View menu in the file manager, then select one of the following menu items: