On 1/18/06, Robert Citek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Nice. One thing I do need is a way to easily adjust the font size in
> an xterm. The default font with xterm is microscopic, at least for
> my eyes.
The problem is that how fonts are rendered depend on the size/quality
of the monitor and the resolution X runs at. So it is hard to choose
a ``right'' size that will look good on all systems. Are you going to
be setting up each of these by hand? If so, you can test which font
size looks good and then set it in either the user's ~/.Xdefaults or
the system app-defaults (/etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm):
XTerm*font: fixed
But obviously you can't expect people to go through that if you ever
think they would want to adjust it later. Therefore, you might want
to consider using gnome-terminal or konsole as the terminal
application. Since you are basing this on Ubuntu, gnome-terminal
seems like the right choice. The only problem is that it uses a lot
more memory than good ol' xterm. On the other hand, once you start
one gnome-terminal, any time you open another one, it basically uses
the already existing one and just opens another window. Simply
installing gnome-terminal should made xfce4 spawn it by default when
you click the terminal icon (it is handled through the
/etc/alternatives structure and gnome-terminal has a higher priority
than xterm). To increase the size of the font in gnome-terminal, just
use the menus: View -> Zoom In.
> Install FireFox and then add it to the menu and panel.
You should be able to install firefox using
apt-get/aptitude/synaptic/dselect (when you are installing
gnome-terminal). Once you have that installed, you can simply
right-click on the panel and select Add new item -> Launcher. Then
enter the location and icon for firefox. If you want to do it more
automatically, doing the above adds a section like the one below to
~/.xfce4/xfce4rc:
<Group>
<Control id="-2" popup="0">
<Command term="0" sn="0">/usr/bin/firefox</Command>
<Tooltip>Web Browser</Tooltip>
<Icon id="-1">/usr/share/pixmaps/firefox.png</Icon>
</Control>
</Group>
You could create a standard xfce4rc with this (and other stuff in it)
and put it in /etc/skel/.xfce4.
dd
--
David Dooling
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