Easier reading via enlarged fonts
The described method should work on even simple desktop environments. If I don't already have an xorg.conf for editing, I first generate it by Xorg -config xorg.conf.new . To make the screen easier to read, you need to scale DPI by setting Displaysize in the respective "Monitor" section of xorg.conf proportionally larger than it physically is. A native driver outputs the original image size in Xorg.0.log. You need to type in the real size values times the magnification factor. So if the real active area of your display is 200mm wide and 100mm high and want 1.5x larger text, you insert Option DisplaySize 300 150 . Unfortunately, not all applications honor this setting. You need to increase the default zoom by hand in Chromium . You need to update the hexadecimal "LogPixels" dpi setting in ~/.wine/system.reg for Wine . Otherwise if you are using Gnome, you could also try to increase the text scaling factor with the Gnome Tweak Tool, Universal...