Ben, Bruce, Carlo Thank you all for the help & info you have provided me. Sorry it took me so long to reply to you all but I have been wrestling with this for a couple of days. Update: After becoming frustrated with this and several other problems with KDE (see Kmail Kquirks) I did the following. First I tried your solution Bruce, but I did not have a file called ....User/<gobbledygook>/chrome/userChrome.css...... so I went to the URL you gave me, copied the files, made a new userChrome.css file and copied the info to there. Wouldn't work. Don't know why I don't have a User/<gobbledygook>/chrome/userChrome.css ! Oh well! So, then I followed Ben's advive, uninstalled Mozilla 1.4b, downloaded 1.4rc5 tar.gz and installed that. ( file structure seems significantly different) Anyway,same big fonts. Finally discovered (after Ben telling me) that I had to use gnomecc as a user (was thinking it was system wide) and finally solved my font size problem. Only thing is, I don't have any of my plug-ins :-( Guess I will have to go to Netscape and download them. Nor my bookmarks (See below) Hey Ben, guess I have to take mozilla out of my apt-get sources list now, right? :-( BTW, couldn't download that theme. Don't know why. I would like to try it! Sooooo, I then blew away .kde and let it rebuild. ( What a PITA to set all of my prefs again) but, It solved all of my other KDE problems including the screwy kmail thing. Carlos, last, but cerainly not least. Thanks to your advice I can access those old bookmarks now for browsing, There are several hundred of them in about 20 different directories.. Surely would like to integrate them though so that I can add and remove entries, Can't figure out how to do that in "Manage Bookmarks". More advice, please?? Anyway guys, thanks again. Really funny though, I upgraded 8.0 to 8.1 with apt-get with some problems but it worked out pretty good. Then I upgraded 8.1 to 8.2 with shiny new discs. Worked pretty good. But I wanted to change my directory structure so I did a new install of 8.2 !!! Boy, am I sorry!!! Think I will keep 8.2 for at least two years, assuming I will eventually get everything working right. Hmmmmm,,,, Maybe an 8.3 with apt-get ????? Bob S.
The 03.07.02 at 02:29, Bob S. wrote:
Carlos, last, but cerainly not least. Thanks to your advice I can access those old bookmarks now for browsing, There are several hundred of them in about 20 different directories.. Surely would like to integrate them though so that I can add and remove entries, Can't figure out how to do that in "Manage Bookmarks". More advice, please??
"Bookmarks" menu, submenu "Manage bookmarks". A window pops up, where you can see all your bookmarks, and you can edit, delete, or move bookmarks. The problem is, if you access your old bookmarks as I told you, you only see them as a local html file, not really bookmarks. As I don't have so many, what i do is right-click, "bookmark this link". Very tedious. Good news: on the "Manage bookmarks" window, under "Tools" menu, there is a "import". Bad news, is that although the bookmark file increases in size, I don't see them - ah, yes, I do, they appear at the bottom. It seems not be inmediate. :-) -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 08:02, Carlos E. R. wrote:
The 03.07.02 at 02:29, Bob S. wrote:
Carlos, last, but cerainly not least. Thanks to your advice I can access those old bookmarks now for browsing, There are several hundred of them in about 20 different directories.. Surely would like to integrate them though so that I can add and remove entries, Can't figure out how to do that in "Manage Bookmarks". More advice, please??
"Bookmarks" menu, submenu "Manage bookmarks". A window pops up, where you can see all your bookmarks, and you can edit, delete, or move bookmarks.
Carlos, Yep, knew that.
The problem is, if you access your old bookmarks as I told you, you only see them as a local html file, not really bookmarks. As I don't have so many, what i do is right-click, "bookmark this link". Very tedious.
You are absolutely correct. Could not agree more.
Good news: on the "Manage bookmarks" window, under "Tools" menu, there is a "import". Bad news, is that although the bookmark file increases in size, I don't see them - ah, yes, I do, they appear at the bottom. It seems not be inmediate.
Ahhhhh.....excellent. So many menus to root around in. Success. Just moved them to the top and edited the whole thing. THANKS !!! Bob S.
:-)
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 02:29, Bob S. wrote:
Ben, Bruce, Carlo
Thank you all for the help & info you have provided me. Sorry it took me so long to reply to you all but I have been wrestling with this for a couple of days.
Update: After becoming frustrated with this and several other problems with KDE (see Kmail Kquirks) I did the following. First I tried your solution Bruce, but I did not have a file called ....User/<gobbledygook>/chrome/userChrome.css...... so I went to the URL you gave me, copied the files, made a new userChrome.css file and copied the info to there. Wouldn't work. Don't know why I don't have a User/<gobbledygook>/chrome/userChrome.css ! Oh well!
Did you find the ...../chrome directory? Then make your own userChrome.css file.
So, then I followed Ben's advive, uninstalled Mozilla 1.4b, downloaded 1.4rc5 tar.gz and installed that. ( file structure seems significantly different) Anyway,same big fonts. Finally discovered (after Ben telling me) that I had to use gnomecc as a user (was thinking it was system wide) and finally solved my font size problem. Only thing is, I don't have any of my plug-ins :-( Guess I will have to go to Netscape and download them. Nor my bookmarks (See below) Hey Ben, guess I have to take mozilla out of my apt-get sources list now, right? :-( BTW, couldn't download that theme. Don't know why. I would like to try it!
Sooooo, I then blew away .kde and let it rebuild. ( What a PITA to set all of my prefs again) but, It solved all of my other KDE problems including the screwy kmail thing.
Carlos, last, but cerainly not least. Thanks to your advice I can access those old bookmarks now for browsing, There are several hundred of them in about 20 different directories.. Surely would like to integrate them though so that I can add and remove entries, Can't figure out how to do that in "Manage Bookmarks". More advice, please??
Anyway guys, thanks again. Really funny though, I upgraded 8.0 to 8.1 with apt-get with some problems but it worked out pretty good. Then I upgraded 8.1 to 8.2 with shiny new discs. Worked pretty good. But I wanted to change my directory structure so I did a new install of 8.2 !!! Boy, am I sorry!!! Think I will keep 8.2 for at least two years, assuming I will eventually get everything working right. Hmmmmm,,,, Maybe an 8.3 with apt-get ?????
Bob S.
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 08:30, Bruce Marshall wrote: ..................<snip>..........................
....User/<gobbledygook>/chrome/userChrome.css...... so I went to the URL you gave me, copied the files, made a new userChrome.css file and copied the info to there. Wouldn't work. Don't know why I don't have a User/<gobbledygook>/chrome/userChrome.css ! Oh well!
Did you find the ...../chrome directory? Then make your own userChrome.css file.
Bruce, yep, I found the /chrome file, then created the user/Chrome.css file, as stated above. Just wouldn't work. Can't tell you why. Problem solved for now. Thanks for trying to help. Much appreciated. Bob S.
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 21:46 pm, Bob S. wrote:
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 08:30, Bruce Marshall wrote:
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....User/<gobbledygook>/chrome/userChrome.css...... so I went to the URL you gave me, copied the files, made a new userChrome.css file and copied the info to there. Wouldn't work. Don't know why I don't have a User/<gobbledygook>/chrome/userChrome.css ! Oh well!
Did you find the ...../chrome directory? Then make your own userChrome.css file.
Bruce, yep, I found the /chrome file, then created the user/Chrome.css file, as stated above. Just wouldn't work. Can't tell you why. Problem solved for now. Thanks for trying to help. Much appreciated.
Bob S.
Ok, shove this in your userChrome.css and see what happens.... :-) /* * This file can be used to customize the look of Mozilla's user interface * You should consider using !important on rules which you want to * override default settings. */ /* * Do not remove the @namespace line -- it's required for correct functioning */ @namespace url("http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul"); /* set default namespace to XUL */ /* * Some possible accessibility enhancements: */ /* * Make all the default font sizes 20 pt: * * * { * font-size: 20pt !important * } */ /* * Make menu items in particular 15 pt instead of the default size: * * menupopup > * { * font-size: 15pt !important * } */ /* * Give the Location (URL) Bar a fixed-width font * * #urlbar { * font-family: monospace !important; * } */ /* * Eliminate the throbber and its annoying movement: * * #throbber-box { * display: none !important; * } */ /* * For more examples see http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html */ /* Make menus big, pretty and readable (like the old SGI look): * menubar isn't used after 12/19 builds, but is needed for NS6; * the rest are for post-12/19 */ menubar, menubutton, menulist, menu, menuitem { font-family: helvetica !important; font-style: italic !important; font-weight: bold !important; font-size: 4mm !important; } -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 07/03/03 21:37 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe." - H. G. Wells
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