Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (3138 mails)

[Felix Miata <mrmazda@xxxxxx>]

B. Stia wrote:
 
> Here we go again. teeny tiny barely readable fonts. (I am also sight
> impaired - macular degeneration)
 
> I am running SuSE 9.2, KDE 3.3.1. The tiny fonts are only in the gnome
> based applications. Firefox, NVU, and GQView. Now, I am talking ONLY
> about the fonts in the menus, dropdowns, URL bar, etc.  I can change
> the fonts in the displayed material OK.
 
> In a previous thread I asked about editing a userChrome.css file which
> supposedly would make the fonts larger in Firefox. Edited and placed in
> my chrome file didn't work.  However, even if that had succeeded that
> wouldn't have helped Gimp & gqview.
 
> I had this same problem a few years ago back in SuSE 8.0 and at that
> time it was either Joe Morris or Ben Rosenberg who advised me about a
> gnome config file. I fixed it with that app. For the life of me I
> cannot remember what it was. (gnomecc ?? or something like that ??)
> Ihave searched the archives and my several thousand saved "important"
> e-mails from this list with no luck.  Does it still exist??  Someone
> told me to try gconf-editor. Doesn't work, get an unknown command. Can
> someone help me out here ?

Same answer I gave less than 12 hours ago here. If Firefox fonts are
wrong, most likely your DPI is wrong. Fix it before looking elsewhere.
http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html
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