Woody reinstall, mozilla menu huge fonts
Hi,
I *had* Woody, KDE 3, GCC new version [to go with
KDE 3], and mozilla, on an 800Mhz 686-PII-MMX box.
I noticed that my 5 gb/5 gb partitioning of usr and
var was not very effective, so I decided to change it
to 2 gb/8 gb. To do this, I decided to reinstall
Woody. I was also hoping to upgrade to Sarge in the
process. I kept my /home directories there, but
reinitialized everything else.
Everything went fine until I got to tasksel. I
broke out of the process, and stepped over to dselect
to try and peg to sarge[testing] -- no good [probably
because I was using an incomplete mirror]. So I
switched back to standard sources, and reran tasksel,
and then used dselect to trim things up a bit.
I decided to stick with kde2, since I intend to
eventually get rid of kde anyhow. I also picked up
Gnome, though, because it seems to run faster.
I had one problem starting X, which I solved:
/etc/X11/X did not exist, I had to manually create a
symlink. I also had to manually discover my
/dev/psaux mouse and symlink it to /dev/mouse [I feel
good about figuring that one out on my own].
So far, so good. But when I ran mozilla, I had an
interesting situation. With User1, everything was
fine. With User2 and a new install of User3, though,
the menus were all giant (256 pt?). After some
googling, I found out how to set the userChrome.css
files, and managed to clear *some* of the menu back to
10 point. But new emails, replies, and that
frustrating "search" bar at the top of the mozilla
email page were still huge.
I then completely uninstalled mozilla, went over to
/etc/mozilla [deleted that], /usr/.../mozilla [deleted
that] /var/.../mozilla [deleted that], and
reinstalled.
Fine? Well, no. The User1 was now messed up, too.
Plus the others. [accidentally "rm -rf .mozilla"'d
the User1 profile and it's email, while trying to do
it to test case User3... oops. Remind me to think
about Unix as "not dos, no undeletes". But no
biggie.]
So I'm wondering what's gone wrong. *WHY* do those
fonts on the menu come out giant? I really like
mozilla, but at the current stage it's unusable, and
googling doesn't provide any clues.
I'm asking it here, because this *could* be a debian
issue, and also because I'm not finding much evidence
of mozilla user groups. Any help would be
appreciated: either a full listing of all the
userChrome.css settings, so that I can manually peg my
font sizes, or alternatively an understanding of what
got corrupted and how to fix it. If I had to take a
wild, random guess, some font size got set to zero in
the main css, and is defaulting to a full cycling of a
1-byte counter, 256.
- Michael Rudmin
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