# System font bolded gets larger point size in Linuxin recent IDEs

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**Created:** [January 21, 2025, 10:58am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/system-font-bolded-gets-larger-point-size-in-linuxin-recent-ides/83986 "2025-01-21T10:58:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![TimStreater](https://forum.xojo.com/user_avatar/forum.xojo.com/timstreater/32/586_2.png) [@TimStreater](https://forum.xojo.com/u/TimStreater)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2025, 10:58am UTC](https://forum.xojo.com/t/system-font-bolded-gets-larger-point-size-in-linuxin-recent-ides/83986/1 "2025-01-21T10:58:18Z")

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This is really quite annoying: in 2024r4.1, if you have some text (say, in a DesktopLabel), and leave it as System font, default size (i.e., left at 0), but then set it bold, under Linux (only) it becomes a lot wider. In 2023r4 it does not.

Consider these images. This one is under macOS (Sonoma 14.7.2):

 ![Screenshot 2025-01-21 at 10.21.43](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/3X/5/4/54467498c4018ce509f1414d6167c38db3bfb7d3.png)

Now the same, but running under Linux Mint 20.3 Una:

 ![2023r4 with Mint](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/3X/a/7/a722dcfc936f9b98a1ddc41d8bde1321b011f14e.png)

Now we see that with the current IDE, the default font under Linux is a bit larger and, when bolded, wider too:

 ![2024r4.1 Linux](https://forum.xojo.com/uploads/default/original/3X/7/0/70192be5eff30fd7d7253b777ae2cac85723c49b.png)

Anyone know what’s going on? Doesn’t affect macOS or Win-10.