Hello SuSE folk, 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 ? Bob S.
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 -- "I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
On Friday 10 December 2004 00:46, Felix Miata wrote:
B. Stia wrote:
Here we go again. teeny tiny barely readable fonts. (I am also sight impaired - macular degeneration) ....<snip some of my own stuff>,,, 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.
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
Felix, You are absolutely correct. I am running 800x600 on a 19" monitor (376x282 mm) and the dpi is 54x54. It should be somewhere around 96. I have tried everything that the referenced URL has stated and could not get it to work globally. I did "force" Firefox with the browser.display.screen_resolution by changing that from 0 to 96. That fixed Firefox. That leaves NVU Gimp & GQview with the teeny tiny fonts. There HAS to be a way to change the fonts size for the gtk stuff. Help ! Please? someone? anyone? How does one resolve this dpi thing? Bob S.
B. Stia wrote:
Hello SuSE folk,
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.
Happens to me a lot as well, but globally, and (I think) always after an abnormal shutdown. Once upon a time, I went through the laborious process of resetting fonts in the Control Center, which sometimes didn't work the first few times. Ultimately it did work, though, in all applications, Gnome/GTK as well as KDE/Qt. I can't recall how I stumbled across this one, but now I just let KDE finish its startup and abort the X server (Ctrl-Alt-Backspace), then restart X, and all is fine. (I'm booting into runlevel 3, so you won't necessarily be able to do this, if you boot to level 5. If so, you might try to init 3/init 5, and see if that resolves the problem. Or, init 3 and run through my procedure. Just a guess, really.) I did recently come across some information on this problem, but I cannot recall where, nor can I recall the precise solution. It has to do with erroneous X config settings for the screen resolution, notably the DPI setting. All I recall is something about measuring the true on-screen size of your graphics window and comparing that with the setting in X for the screen size, dimension, and resolution. My command history shows these commands: "xdpyinfo|grep dimensions" and "xdpyinfo|grep resolution" but that is all I know right now. I cannot even recall where that information is stored or how to manipulate it (though it is perhaps fair to say that SaX or xf86config might have something to do with it :-) ). I will try to see if I can dig some possible references out of my browser history for you.
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