Re: X resources (was Re: Netscape big menu)
For less ugly Netscape fonts and proper size scaling,
the best solution I've found is to install the mozilla-fonts
package at http://fox.mit.edu/skunk/xwin/#mozilla_fonts,
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 13:27:55 -0700, kmself@ix.netcom.com said:
> 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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