Evil, stinky fonts under Netscape

[Bill Warner]

has anyone else found grdb?  it is a fairly new gnome program
that sets x resources for motif and xlib based programs to help
make them look as close as possible to you current gnome theme.

Check for it at freshmeat I know there are rpms for it and alien
works well on it for debianifing it.

Bill Warner

Mark Berkwitt wrote:

> Strangely, adding that line of code
>
> Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 5
> to your .Xdefaults file, log out and log in again.
>
> Worked when I logged on as root, but there was no .Xdefaults file under my
> regular user accounts.  I suspect I've just revealed how little I know;
> could it be that that's why it's called a default file?  Anyway, it makes a
> decent change for the root surfer, but I as user still see those tiny fonts.
> Please pardon me for saying this, but I wish it looked as good as my IE
> fonts.  There, I've said it and it's out.  Even still, I'm convinced my
> Netscape in linux could look just as good as anyone else's fonts somehow.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Kevin
> Buettner
> Sent: Monday, July 17, 2000 10:18 AM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: Evil, stinky fonts under Netscape
>
> Thanks Rod.  This suggestion worked well for me too.
>
> On Jul 6,  6:31pm, Rod Roark wrote:
> > Subject: Re: Evil, stinky fonts under Netscape
> > On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, you wrote:
> > > On Jul 6,  4:33pm, Joel Dudley wrote:
> > >
> > > > You can change the font size under the "preferences"  menu.
> > >
> > > That works for me too.  But, still, I can't help but feel that I'm
> > > missing something when changing the fonts for one site to make things
> > > readable ends up making most of the other sites come up with a really
> > > big font.
> > >
> > > Kevin
> >
> > What follows is an old newsgroup posting on this topic.  It worked
> > for me!
> >
> > -- Rod
> >    http://www.sunsetsystems.com/
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup
> > Subject: Re: Small fonts in Netscape?  Mozilla is even worse!!!
> > Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 19:37:24 GMT
> >
> > On Thu, 03 Feb 2000 11:08:46 -0800, MrNiceGuy
> <mrniceguyNOmrSPAM@arkansas.net.invalid> wrote:
> > >In article <3899B2DB.8B5DB9D2@zhotxmail.zcom>, "David .."
> > ><zthunderzboltx01x@zhotxmail.zcom> wrote:
> > >>Here is a trick to fix the font size in netscape. I found it at
> > >>www.portico.org.
> > >>
> > >> Netscape has a bad habit of making small text so small it is
> > >>unreadable, and
> > >>increasing the standard font size makes normal text too big.
> > >>To fix this, add:
> > >>
> > >>       Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 5
> > >>
> > >>to your .Xdefaults file, log out and log in again.
> > >>
> > >
> > >Thanks for the info, but will something similar work for
> > >Mozilla's tiny menu fonts?  That's what I really need to fix!
> >
> >  Unless the moz developers are being very bad boys,
> >  you should be able to tweak that with your gtk
> >  settings (.gtkrc).
> >
> >  Did you search mozilla.org regarding this matter?
> >
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