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 ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > -- > Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://www.netcom.com/~kmself > Evangelist, Opensales, Inc. http://www.opensales.org > What part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? Debian GNU/Linux rocks! > http://gestalt-system.sourceforge.net/ K5: http://www.kuro5hin.org > GPG fingerprint: F932 8B25 5FDD 2528 D595 DC61 3847 889F 55F2 B9B0 >
