Hi Bill!
Anno domini 2022 Mon, 21 Nov 03:55:20 -0800 William Morder via tde-users scripsit:
Okay, so here's my problem. I want a basic calculator, at least the 4 functions, although I don't mind having other goodies, but I really just need a basic calculator for doing simple tasks like figuring out whether I have any money left in my account.
I got kcalc-trinity downloaded, managed to change the colors to make it more visible, but now I find that it cannot be resized, nor the size of characters in the display enlarged.
Same here.
If not a Trinity program, then I'd be glad to try a non-TDE program, but there again I run into the same problem with every calculator I've tried. The only other one that I use sometimes is galculator, but while I can enlarge its size, the characters stay so tiny that I cannot read them, cannot make out the difference between x, +, and so on, and the keypad also has unreadable numbers.
I use qualc, the console versiomn of qualculate. It's quite what I expect from a calculator, including history, constants etc.
There was one that I remembered, qalculate, of which there was supposed to be a Trinity version, but neither the Trinity version nor any others (Gnome, gtk, etc.) with download and install. Something about dependencies, it seems, but when I did a search for the deb package, I get only an error page.
Is there any calculator that I can resize both the gui frame of the program (not sure if that's the right terminology) as well as the size of the characters? Or is there some way that I could hack the Trinity version of kcalc to make it bigger?
But you can install "xcalc" and use good old .Xresources to change fonts, colors etc.
Or you can use a modified GTK theme and then tell the GTK application to use that theme, like: $ GTK_THEME=Adwaita:dark bad-gnome-caculator
Or you may want to only use a scaling factor for GTK: $ GTK2_DPI_SCALE=4 bad-gnome-caculator
Have I mentioned the numerouse benefits of GNOME for satanists?
Nik
See attached screenshot for comparsion of the two top underperformers.
Bill
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