Steam fonts are very small on Ubuntu 20.04
If you want to start steam
with scaled UI from launchpad, you can set GDK_SCALE=2
(as mentioned in the accepted solution) in steam.desktop
file (in my case it is located in /usr/share/applications
).
First, open the file in your favourite text editor (e.g. gedit
). You might need superuser privileges:
gedit /usr/share/applications/steam.desktop
Then change the Exec
entry value to:
Exec=sh -c 'GDK_SCALE=2 /usr/games/steam %U'
Note: your steam
path can be different to mine (/usr/games/steam
). Just use the path from your Exec
entry.
Find the bin_steam.sh
:
$ which steam
// >> /usr/bin/steam
$ ls -la /usr/bin/steam
// >> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 25 Jul 29 2020 /usr/bin/steam -> ../lib/steam/bin_steam.sh
$ ls -la /usr/lib/steam/bin_steam.sh
// >> -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 5946 Jun 21 14:26 /usr/lib/steam/bin_steam.sh
Edit bin_steam.sh
:
$ sudo gedit /usr/lib/steam/bin_steam.sh
Add at the beginning export GDK_SCALE=2
:
File changes
Run Steam as usual and see the changes ;)
If you start Steam from a terminal with the command GDK_SCALE=2 steam
it seems to work.
I found the answer on a Manjaro help page.