Pinch Zoom

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Resize bb's chat, composer and terminal text with a pinch, or switch a setting to scale the whole app. Text scales from 75% to 200%; settings make the composer and terminal half to double the chat size, and terminals re-wrap to their new width when you let go. A pinch over a terminal fine-tunes it on that device. Works with a touchscreen, a trackpad pinch, or Ctrl and the mouse wheel, and a Settings section has A−, A+ and Reset buttons. Terminal sizing and chat-only scaling hook into bb's internal components, so a bb update can break them until the plugin catches up; whole-app text sizing does not depend on them.

Overview

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Pinch to make text bigger or smaller, anywhere in bb.

What you get

  • Text size: pinch anywhere in the app to scale text from 75% to 200%.
  • Terminal text size: terminals follow the text size, and a pinch over a terminal fine-tunes it from 8px to 32px. The terminal re-wraps to the new size once you let go.
  • Choose what scales: by default only the chat, composer and terminals, while the sidebar and headers stay at their normal size; or switch to the whole app.
  • Relative sizes: settings make the composer and terminal larger or smaller than the chat text, from half to double.
  • Works with a touchscreen (iPhone, iPad, Android), a trackpad, or Ctrl + mouse wheel.
  • A Settings section with A−/A+ and Reset buttons for each size.

How it works

The pinched sizes are saved on each device, so your phone and your desktop keep their own. The relative sizes and what scales are plugin settings shared by every device. Nothing is sent anywhere else.

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