2013-05-27, 05:35
I love all the skins of xbmc, but sometimes due the small font size in some skins it is difficult to read some info (plot....).
In windows there is a fantastic scripts from chapado user posted : xfontsize, and now that I'm trying to move all my pcs from windows to ubuntu. So I have tried to make it work.
This is what I have done in order to make it work properly:
1.- Install the latest version of wine :
2.- Download xfontsize script from the original post : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=56438
Unzip and copy to a folder where is easy to access for example : Desktop
3.- Right click on xfontsize.exe file and in permissions select "allow to run as executable program"
4.- Copy the Font.xml (make sure to make a copy in order to keep the original) from the skin folder and paste into the xfontsize folder.
5.- Open terminal and open the xfontsize folder
6.- You would not see anything in the terminal, so it seems it did not do nothing. but it did. (it you get an error probably its a typing mistake)
Finally copy the Font.xml file from xfontsize folder to the skin folder (720p or 1080) and replace for the original
Restart xbmc and we got it. Bigger fonts
You can try as many times as you would like until you find the wished font size .
For me to values between 3 and 5 are big enough
Thank you to chapado user for this lovely script. All the credits to him!!!!!
In windows there is a fantastic scripts from chapado user posted : xfontsize, and now that I'm trying to move all my pcs from windows to ubuntu. So I have tried to make it work.
This is what I have done in order to make it work properly:
1.- Install the latest version of wine :
Quote:sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-wine/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install wine
2.- Download xfontsize script from the original post : http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=56438
Unzip and copy to a folder where is easy to access for example : Desktop
3.- Right click on xfontsize.exe file and in permissions select "allow to run as executable program"
4.- Copy the Font.xml (make sure to make a copy in order to keep the original) from the skin folder and paste into the xfontsize folder.
5.- Open terminal and open the xfontsize folder
Quote:cd DesktopOnce you are located in the xfontsize folder type the following:
cd xfontsize
Quote:wine xfontsize.exe Font.xml x (where "x" is the number you want to increase the original font, if you add a "-" it will be decreased the original size)
6.- You would not see anything in the terminal, so it seems it did not do nothing. but it did. (it you get an error probably its a typing mistake)
Finally copy the Font.xml file from xfontsize folder to the skin folder (720p or 1080) and replace for the original
Restart xbmc and we got it. Bigger fonts
You can try as many times as you would like until you find the wished font size .
For me to values between 3 and 5 are big enough
Thank you to chapado user for this lovely script. All the credits to him!!!!!