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How to zoom in and out of text in Gedit?

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I am using Ubuntu 11.10. This seems to be an easy question, yet I cannot find an answer anywhere.

On pre-unity Ubuntu, I was using gedit-zoom plugin to zoom text in editor window in/out, either with Ctrl++/-, or by holding Ctrl+ scrolling mouse-wheel. The same plugin does not seem to work in Ubuntu 11.10.

Any way I can get text zooming capability?

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answered 2 Years ago dresuitable · Accepted Answer

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Under Edit → Preferences → Plugins, you can tick the Text Size box and zoom in with ctrl++.
- Click on gedit-plugins to install the Gedit plugins.
- You can also manually download/install the plugin.

ctrl+Trackpad scroll (up/down) enables you, to zoom in and out as well, not only within gEdit, but also in your Webbrowser, File System etc.

Both possibilities work just fine in Ubuntu 11.10.

Update information for Ubuntu 17.x.x, 18.x.x and later, as suggested by code_dredd - tested and works:

sudo apt-get install -y gedit-plugin-text-size