Desire to increase text size under desktop icons

[bob-htz]

I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04. I use the Gnome desktop. I believe in 18.04, Gnome Tweaks tool would increase the font size of text under desktop icons. That does not appear to be the case for 20.04. I already have Large Text selected. I have eyesight issues.

Is there a css file somewhere that I can edit to achieve this?

There other issue is associated with the Tweaks tool. I have the scaling factor set to greater than 1. Every time I restart, the scaling factor is ignored and I have to nudge the value to get the system to recognize it. I researched this and it does appear to be a software bug.

Will there be a fix? Is there a work around (other than switching to another desktop)?

[Dennis N]

Using Ubuntu 20.04, with gnome-shell theme Flat-Remix-Dark.

You can increase text under desktop icons, but not independently - text size on the top bar, top bar menus, and desktop notifications will also increase. Edit the file gnome-shell.css which will be inside your gnome-shell theme folder, which may be a sub-folder of your applications theme folder, and change font size in this section:

/* Global Values */
stage {
  font-size: 10pt;
  color: #eeeeec; }

To prove it works, below are before and after screenshots when increasing font-size from 10pt to 13pt. Notice the panel width also increased to accommodate the larger font.