Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?
Thanks for the info. I searched the Netscape.ap file for all occurances of Courier and Helvetica and stuck those lines in my ~/.Xdefaults, but with the font sizes reduced by 10 (100 instead of 120 mostly). Now things look a little better. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775 ~cswingle PGP key: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/~cswingle/pubkey.asc
Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 11:32:03AM -0800, Christopher S. Swingley wrote: To fix this, and some related Netscape brain damage, create a file /etc/X11/Xresources/netscape, with the following lines: Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 05 snip Thanks a lot for these X resources for Netscape. Do you have any idea how to control the fonts that Netscape uses for displaying the menus and other non-web page text? Seems like there should be a X resource for that too. Several of the submenu fonts are covered in the resources file provided previously. As I prefer having my X resources managed uniformly, I've created (or modified -- don't recall) a seperate file, xfree86-common, as follows: begin xfree86-comon ! /etc/X11/Xresources/xfree86-common ! load color-specific resources for clients that have them #ifdef COLOR *customization: -color #endif ! make Xaw (Athena widget set) clients understand the delete key ! this causes problems with some non-Xaw apps, use with care ! *Text.translations: #override ~Shift ~Meta KeyDelete: delete-next-character() ! Use fixed fonts for all menus and stuff. Mostly affects Motif and ! Lesstif apps. *fontList: fixed *XmTextField.fontList: fixed *XmText.fontList: fixed *XmList*fontList: fixed *popup*fontList:fixed begin xfree86-comon IIRC, I isolated most of these widget references with editres, while poking through a couple of X clients. I still get the odd app which doesn't listen to me (RealPlayer, IIRC), but most behave themselves. -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of Gestalt don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/
Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?
Most web sites are designed for Microsoft. To see them like the author would like you to see them use Windows fonts. So, install the true type font server and copy the Windows true type fonts to the appropriet directory. That's fine.
Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?
On Mon, Apr 10, 2000 at 02:14:52AM +0200, Armin Wegner wrote: Most web sites are designed for Microsoft. To see them like the author would like you to see them use Windows fonts. So, install the true type font server and copy the Windows true type fonts to the appropriet directory. That's fine. While this helps, it doesn't address all issues, particularly WRT font sizing. Many websites render fonts which are simply too small to be easily read under NS/Linux. To fix this, and some related Netscape brain damage, create a file /etc/X11/Xresources/netscape, with the following lines: # Restrict the range of size increments allowed by font size=n # directives to # the range 80% - 120% rather than 50% - 210%. Default increment is 20. # KMSelf Wed Dec 29 15:47:57 PST 1999 Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 05 # Clean up the fscking toolbar Netscape*toolBar.search.isEnabled: false Netscape*toolBar.destinations.isEnabled: false Netscape*toolBar.myshopping.isEnabled: false Netscape*toolBar.viewSecurity.isEnabled: false Netscape*toolBar.print.isEnabled: true Netscape*toolBar.home.isEnabled: true # And some other brain damage Netscape*useStdoutDialog: false Netscape*useStderrDialog: false Netscape*noAboutSplash: true # Fonts -- dialogs and such Netscape*attachmentProps*XmLabelGadget.fontList: fixed Netscape*AddressBook*mainform.fontList: fixed Netscape*XmLGrid*fontList: fixed Netscape*attachItemLabel*fontList: fixed Netscape*prefs*fontList: fixed Netscape*statusBar*fontList: fixed # Document fonts -- scaling doesn't appear to take effect w/ TTF fonts Netscape*documentFonts.defaultFont*iso-8859-1.prop: -ttf-garamond-120-noscale Netscape*documentFonts.defaultFont*iso-8859-1.fixed: -ttf-courier new-90-noscale ...the file is modified from /usr/lib/netscape/461/netscape/Netscape.ad -- Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) What part of Gestalt don't you understand? http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/
Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?
To fix this, and some related Netscape brain damage, create a file /etc/X11/Xresources/netscape, with the following lines: Netscape*documentFonts.sizeIncrement: 05 snip Thanks a lot for these X resources for Netscape. Do you have any idea how to control the fonts that Netscape uses for displaying the menus and other non-web page text? Seems like there should be a X resource for that too. Chris -- Christopher S. Swingley tel: 907-474-2689 fax: 474-2643 930 Koyukuk Drive, Suite 408C email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] University of Alaska Fairbankswww.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/ Fairbanks, AK 99775 ~cswingle PGP key: http://www.frontier.iarc.uaf.edu:8080/~cswingle/pubkey.asc
Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?
snip Thanks a lot for these X resources for Netscape. Do you have any idea how to control the fonts that Netscape uses for displaying the menus and other non-web page text? Seems like there should be a X resource for that too. karsten already mentioned it: the Netscape.ad file. in the original netscape distribution it is in the netscape root directory. no idea, where or if it is in debian. -- Hi! I'm a .signature virus! Copy me into your ~/.signature, please! -- Linux - the last service pack you'll ever need.
fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?
how can I fix netscape's ugly fonts? how? I can barely read the fonts esp. when visiting sites with really small fonts they are almost unreadable...well, except maybe if you use a magnifying glass or a microscope or something. then it becomes better. it said in the font HOWTo that netscape fonts can be changed in the .Xdefaults file. I can't find that file anywhere! __ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com
Re: fixing netscape's super ugly fonts..how?
This mini-HOWTO should help. It has a specific section for Netscape: http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/FDU.html Tom john smith wrote: how can I fix netscape's ugly fonts? how? I can barely read the fonts esp. when visiting sites with really small fonts they are almost unreadable...well, except maybe if you use a magnifying glass or a microscope or something. then it becomes better. it said in the font HOWTo that netscape fonts can be changed in the .Xdefaults file. I can't find that file anywhere!
