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X resources (was Re: Netscape big menu)



On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 02:50:08PM -0400, Christopher W. Aiken (chris.aiken@ansys.com) wrote:
> On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 gygy@csit-sun.pub.ro wrote:
> 
> -|Hello!
> -|I am a new Debian user.
> -|I have a question regarding Netscape menu font.
> -|I use Netscape 3.04 and the menu font is very very big. The same 
> -|problem appears with newer Netscape versions too (4.6, 4.74 etc.).
> -|What I could do to fix this? My screen resolution is 800x600 so 
> -|this is somehow annoying.
> -|In every other distributions, like Slackware, RH, Suse the menu 
> -|looks fine, only in Debian...
> -|Thanks!
> -|
> 
> Try this.  As root, edit your XF86Config file (usually in /etc
> or /etc/X11).  Near the top of the file you should see some
> "FontPath" lines.  Switch the 100dpi and 75dpi lines around
> so that the 75dpi lines are before the 100dpi lines. 
> Then restart your X session.  If the 75dpi lines are already
> before the 100dpi lines, then I'm at a loss....

Some useful Netscape X resources (put in local or system resources file, 
eg:  /etc/X11/Xresources/netscape):

------------------------------------------------------------------------
!## 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
Netscape*documentFonts.maximumPoints:	18
# Following doesn't appear to work.  Fscking idiots.
Netscape*documentFonts.minimumPoints:	10

# 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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