How to reduce the gigantic font size of the VirtualBox GUI?

[somedeveloper]

Version: Fedora 9, Virtual Box 1.6.2
Screen resolution: 1280x1024

I like seeing rather small fonts and have already specified size 7 for
Application,
Document,
Desktop,
Window Title, and
Fixed Width
fonts in the Fonts tab of the System > Preferences > Look and Feel > Appearance dialog.

However, this has no effect on the Virtual Box GUI; the fonts and widget sizes continue to appear gigantic and end up occurpying almost all of my screen.

Any (easy) solution / workaround for this?

Regards,
/SD

[axet]

really that is gnome window manager problem for all windows - huge interface

[somedeveloper]

really that is gnome window manager problem for all windows - huge interface

Really? But all other apps in the same session appear just fine. I mean, I can understand buttons with images appearing huge because (probably) the images that they display are a certain, non-standard size*, but menus and menu items at least should conform to sys prefs, don't you think?


* Even if the image button size is huge due to a large image, at least button text should blend nicely with sys prefs for menu/menuitem sizes. I think.

[mbentley]

you are not the only one who is seeing this ridiculously huge font.

i am running gentoo and running virtualbox 1.6.2

i have tried to go back to 1.5.4 but it still looks ridiculous with the fonts.

i am hoping that there is some way that this can be changed. it takes up some space that i would rather be using for a virtual machine with the large buttons and text.

i have tried to use qtconfig as other places have suggested but i have had no luck and i have tried to change everything possible...

i'd rather not have to use vmware as i find that virtualbox is very lighweight compared to vmware and windows seems to run smoother on it from what i can tell...

[mbentley]

ok, so i just read this post:
http://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?p=9859#9859

and i realized that i have qt3 & qt4 on my system...
it was qt4's config that was running by default.

i had to search for qt3's config by using:
find / -name qtconfig

and i found out that it was located at:
/usr/qt/3/bin/qtconfig

after running it, i could definitely tell it was a different config program... i made my changes and voila! it worked!

[somedeveloper]

ok, so i just read this post:
...
after running it, i could definitely tell it was a different config program... i made my changes and voila! it worked!

Hey, thanks for hunting me down... frustrated I had given up already. It's much better now!

PS: Since Skype is the only well-known application that I know is Qt-based, and since VirtualBox is not by any chance Skype-ish its L&F, it never occurred to me that VirtualBox could in fact be Qt-based too. Thanks, again.

$ # Confirmed now.
$ ldd /usr/lib/virtualbox/VirtualBox |grep qt
libqt-mt.so.3 => /usr/lib/qt-3.3/lib/libqt-mt.so.3 (0x02000000)

[virtuoso]

meh... i like the big fonts... it's the one application i don't need to squint to use

[ssepiro]

/opt/VirtualBox/amd64(?)/VBoxQtconfig

Thank you.

1hoK.

[Sasquatch]

/opt/VirtualBox/amd64(?)/VBoxQtconfig

Thank you.

1hoK.

Are you asking for a Qt config supplied by VB? Why add a program that is already available, namely qtconfig. VB uses Qt for the drawing, so any change you make in qtconfig, will result in a change in VB.

[ssepiro]

Are you asking for a Qt config supplied by VB? Why add a program that is already available, namely qtconfig. VB uses Qt for the drawing, so any change you make in qtconfig, will result in a change in VB.

Thank you for your reply. but I'm not sure about relationship between Qtconfig and virtualbox's qtconfig. maybe vb team knows the reason that they made vbqtconfig.
Thank you.

1hoK.

[Sasquatch]

I don't have that file. Which version and edition are you using? I use the PUEL edition, version 2.1.4.