Now I Know That Technical Thing Too

I recently got a new laptop with Ubuntu 17.10 and a 14" screen. The screen is awesome and allows an awesome resolution of 1920 x 1080. However, this caused the fonts to appear very small. This small font issue was observed in, Titles of the windows The font  in general in several applications Browser, in my case Firefox You can do away with all the trouble by simply choosing a lower resolution. But, if you want the higher resolution minus all the font troubles, read ahead. After several trials and techniques, I finally found solutions that worked for me. Window Titles Settings -> Universal Access -> Large Text This would increase your font size of window titles and the OS UI. Applications Several applications will by default show small fonts. Adjust them as per your liking using their respective preferences. Kate Editor ( Version 17.04 ) Settings -> Configure Kate -> Fonts & Colors -> Font Choose the font size you prefer. Konsole ( Ve...

The option for changing the default profile is not present in konsole (atleast not in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS). It is really irritating to switch profiles whenever I open a new tab. However, we can change it via the config file. The config file is usually present in the home folder /home/username/.kde/share/config/konsolerc It will look something like this, [$Version] update_info=konsole.upd:2.9.0-global-options [Colors] CurrentPalette=Forty Colors [Desktop Entry] DefaultProfile=NewDawn.profile [Favorite Profiles] Favorites=/home/username/.kde/share/apps/konsole/Shell.profile,/home/username/.kde/share/apps/konsole/NewDawn.profile [MainWindow] Height 900=901 State=AAAA/wAAAAD9AAAAAAAABf8AAANQAAAABAAAAAQAAAAIAAAACPwAAAAA ToolBarsMovable=Disabled Width 1600=1601 You can see in Favorite Profiles, I have added a profile named NewDawn apart from the default one named as Shell. My default profile was Shell.profile which I changed to NewDawn.profile by changing Defaul...