Small font size in Google Earth

vizziee · Post by **vizziee** » 2010/02/24 21:03:43

Hello,

After a somewhat arduous experience, I could successfully install Google Earth 5 on my CentOS 5.3 machine (kernel 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5). However the font size of the user interface is so small that I can barely read it. A little bit of digging into posts on Google Earth community tells that this problem is a common one on GE linux installations. Various solutions have been suggested on GE community which seem to work for a few distros. I tried them as follows but they don't appear to be applicable for CentOS:
- Launch qt4-qtconfig and set the font size: no such package available on my CentOS installation in the repositories.
- Change GoogleEarth Registry: no such directory on GE installation on my machine.
- Edit qt.conf file in GE directory: asks for the path of qt4. Even though qt4 is installed, I couldn't see its installation directory.

If anyone has successfully fixed this problem, please let me know. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Kumar Vijay Mishra.

pschaff · Post by **pschaff** » 2010/02/24 22:19:39

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vizziee wrote:
Hello,

After a somewhat arduous experience, I could successfully install Google Earth 5 on my CentOS 5.3 machine (kernel 2.6.18-128.2.1.el5).
[/quote]
The current release is 5.4 - 5.3 is getting seriously obsolete with respect to security and bug fixes. An update following the procedure in section 4 of the [url=http://wiki.centos.org/Manuals/ReleaseNotes/CentOS5.4]CentOS 5.4 Release Notes[/url] is highly recommended to avoid glibc update problems.

[quote]
However the font size of the user interface is so small that I can barely read it. A little bit of digging into posts on Google Earth community tells that this problem is a common one on GE linux installations. Various solutions have been suggested on GE community which seem to work for a few distros. I tried them as follows but they don't appear to be applicable for CentOS:
- Launch qt4-qtconfig and set the font size: no such package available on my CentOS installation in the repositories.
- Change GoogleEarth Registry: no such directory on GE installation on my machine.
- Edit qt.conf file in GE directory: asks for the path of qt4. Even though qt4 is installed, I couldn't see its installation directory.
[/quote]
That one I can help with:[code]
rpm -ql qt4
[/code]
It also reveals:
/usr/bin/qtconfig4
/usr/lib/qt4/bin/qtconfig

vizziee · Post by **vizziee** » 2010/02/26 17:30:39

[quote]
pschaff wrote:
That one I can help with:[code]
rpm -ql qt4
[/code]
It also reveals:
/usr/bin/qtconfig4
/usr/lib/qt4/bin/qtconfig[/quote]

Thank you pschaff! This helped and I could get my font size back to normal on GE5.

Regards,

Kumar Vijay Mishra

pschaff · Post by **pschaff** » 2010/02/26 20:30:54

Glad that worked for you. May help me also if I find time to play with GE. Haven't looked at in in quite some time.

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