Evil, stinky fonts under Netscape

[Mark Berkwitt]

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/
>
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>
> 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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