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From: Denis <denis.che@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: trying to set up fonts in Xorg-7.2 + Firefox-2
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 04:13:55
Message-Id: d9a0a6da0705202105k4f9d18e5v60d273c0bed9e3e4@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] trying to set up fonts in Xorg-7.2 + Firefox-2 by Denis
1 I apologize - please disregard my post.
2
3 I edited userChrome.css, and that did it, and also set the minimum
4 font size to 16. I'm satisfied now :-)
5
6 Denis
7
8 On 5/20/07, Denis <denis.che@×××××.com> wrote:
9 > I just got done setting up the Xorg-7.2 and Fluxbox, and after
10 > compiling and running Firefox-2 for the first time, I found that the
11 > default font set-up wasn't to my liking. It looked strange and
12 > wouldn't produce any boldfaces in Gmail. So I followed a "Howto Xorg
13 > and Fonts - Gentoo Linux Wiki", and my font paths for Xorg currently
14 > have:
15 >
16 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/misc/:unscaled"
17 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/Type1/"
18 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/corefonts/"
19 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/freefonts/"
20 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/sharefonts/"
21 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/terminus/"
22 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/ttf-bitstream-vera/"
23 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/unifont/"
24 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
25 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
26 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/dejavu/"
27 > FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/intlfonts/"
28 >
29 > I removed the "/usr/share/fonts/TTF" and "/usr/share/fonts/OTF"
30 > entries that were in my /etc/xorg.conf, since I did not find those
31 > directories in my /usr/share/fonts directory.
32 >
33 > In Firefox-2 advanced fonts & colors menu, I set proportional to Serif
34 > (16), serif to bitstream vera serif, sans-serif to bitstream vera
35 > sans, and monospace to bitstream vera sans mono (12).
36 >
37 > However, I notice no change from the original Firefox-2 font
38 > appearance, unless I check the "always use my fonts" option. When I
39 > "always use my fonts", I get boldfaces in Gmail, etc, which is good,
40 > but the default font size in Firefox is still too small, and I always
41 > need to click on View->Text Size -> Increase.
42 >
43 > I would like my Firefox fonts under Xorg to look more or less like my
44 > Firefox fonts under Windows ;) How did some of you deal with
45 > customizing fonts in Firefox?
46 >
47 > And how can I make the font in Firefox menus and URL bar larger?
48 >
49 > Thanks, and I apologize in advance if my questions are too simplistic
50 > or have already been asked many times before...
51 >
52 > -Denis
53 >
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