Sublime Text 2 how to change the font size of the file sidebar?

Question

The current font size of the file sidebar is to small for me. How can I make it larger?

Tyr

Answer 1

Select Preferences / Browse Packages…, and go to Theme - Default directory.

Open Default.sublime-theme with your editor and search for sidebar_label string. You should find something like:

{
    "class": "sidebar_label",
    "color": [0, 0, 0],
    "font.bold": false
}

You can add here the font size you prefer:

{
    "class": "sidebar_label",
    "color": [0, 0, 0],
    "font.bold": false,
    "font.size": 14.0
}

Dives

I already solved this by looking at the Soda theme. But thank you for answering, I hope this QA will be useful to other users. – Tyr

There is no "Theme - Default" directory for me. In fact there are no theme folders at all in the folder that opens when I do browse packages.... – Quotation

@Quotation probably you are using Sublime Text 3. Package managing has slightly changed. You can find some information here, "Overriding Files From a Zipped Package" paragraph. – Dives

By doing some experiments, I managed to figure out, that there is a small bug (feature?), which causes, that when setting font.size attribute to a value higher than 15.0, entries on sidebar becomes cut off. – Pornocracy

Is there a way to override these settings in a user config file so I don't have to redo it when I update sublime? – Cuneal

Answer 2

Thanks! Some other settings to change font size (in these examples, smaller) of ALL the visible things!

Note that if you have a Project open (a folder) and the tabs and status bar showing, when you hit save you should see the changes realtime.

Sidebar Tree

{
    "class": "sidebar_tree",
    "row_padding": [0, 0],
    "indent": 6,
    "indent_offset": 17,
    ...
{
    "class": "sidebar_label",
    "color": [0, 0, 0],
    "font.bold": false,
    "font.size": 8.0
    ...

Tabs Open Files

{
    "class": "tabset_control",
    ...
    "content_margin": [0, 0, 3, 1],
    "tab_overlap": 24,
    "tab_width": 180,
    "tab_min_width": 48,
    "tab_height": 18,
    ...
{
    "class": "tab_label",
    ...
    "font.size": 8.0
    ...

Status Bar

{
    "class": "status_bar",
    ...
    "content_margin": [0, 0, 0, 0]
    ...

(I couldn't find where to set the font for the Status Bar, this will squish the bottom bar down though)

Doubtless

Answer 3

Method probably work on the both version of ST

1. check you current setup theme:

   1.1 open preference/settings user

   1.2 cmd + f and type theme

   1.3 you found your theme (may be not default, may be soda dark;) )

2. install package: "PackageResourceViewer"
3. cmd + shift + p - for open command pallete

4. type packageresourceviewer

   4.1 type theme and select theme

   4.2 select your current theme file (for st3 dark3 theme)

   4.3 cmd +f to find "sidebar entry"

   4.4 type in the block: "font.size": NUMBER to the options

   4.5 save

5. enjoy ;)

Bentonbentonite

PackageResourceViewer is amazing, thanks a lot for sharing this. For me it was only one option to find theme file. – Muffle

Answer 4

This question has been answered for Sublime Text 2 but worth mentioning if you are in version 3 is that you can simply copy a package file and place it in your ../Packages/User directory then override the settings there.

EDIT:

You may have to dig around some in order to find where ST3 files were placed during installation.

I'm using Ubuntu and ST3's Main Package files are located at opt/sublime_text/packages. I then copy the package to override into the .config/sublime-text-3/Packages/User directory and then make my edits to that package.

Lanneret

Can you be more specific? Which package file? – Sanies

Please be more specific with "simply copy a package file" – Plutonic

@Leonardo Lopez, I've edited my answer to include direction if you're still having a hard time finding the local installation files. – Lanneret

Answer 5

In Sublime Text 3, select Preferences >> Settings - User from the menubar, then add dpi_scale config to the file and save. That's all.

{
    ......,
    "dpi_scale": 1.5  //set this value as your need.
}

Sibby

this changes the font size for the entire application, which is not what OP wanted. – Aluin