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Re: How to change Netscape Menu fonts?



On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:43:57PM -0800, Eric G . Miller wrote:
> I want to make Netscape use a smaller font for it's menus and buttons.
> However, when I played around with setting something like:
> 
> *font:	-adobe-helvetica-*-r-normal-*-*-110-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1
> 
> in ~/.Xresources, netscape complains about not being able to create a
> font structure.  I haven't found any examples of setting menu fonts, in
> any of the /usr/doc/netscape/examples/*. so I wonder if such a thing is
> possible? and if so, how?

My own modifications to the Netscape.ad file, which I've written to
/etc/X11/Xresources/netscape:

| # 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
| 
| 

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