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 > wrote: > > >In article <3899B2DB.8B5DB9D2@zhotxmail.zcom>, "David .." > > > 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? > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >-- End of excerpt from Rod Roark > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > _______________________________________________ > Plug-discuss mailing list - Plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss