Sounds like your DPI may be set incorrectly (if at all). I've had a
horrible time getting the fonts in Firefox + KDE looking usable at
normal (10-14) font sizes. For whatever reason, Xorg doesn't play nice
when it comes to anything font related (at least, not in my
experience). It certainly doesn't work out of the box on any of the
machines *I* own.
Below are a few links which you may find useful in relation to your font problems;
Here's a link to Mozilla's site that talks extensively about font DPI issues http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html
Here's a link (it's for archlinux, but still should be okay) about how
to configure Xorg.conf. Note section 4.11 which talks about
font sizes and DPI:
http://wiki2.archlinux.org/index.php/XOrg_Font_Configuration
Here's the gentoo-wiki page dealing with xorg and fonts. It talks
a bit about fonts and DPI scaling; at the bottom however is a link
about controlling the font DPI in X:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts
And finally here's a link to some comments on the gentoo wiki about
KDE/fonts/dpi/etc. I found this comment of particular use a while
back: http://gentoo-wiki.com/Talk:HOWTO_Xorg_and_Fonts#Font_DPI
Lastly, I suggest you try searching the forums for stuff about kde,
firefox, fonts, dpi, etc. Searching the forums has become
increasingly annoying due to the volume of posts there, but if you dig
long enough you should find something useful :)
Good luck!
Tim
On 9/23/05, Stewart Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Holly Bostick wrote:Phew! what a long post. Sorry it's takenso long to come back on this. I triedthe emerge x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt.Then made the changes in KDE Controlcenter. No effect at all. I didn't have
Gnome installed, so to see if the basicsetting and hardware are ok I installedit, this is what has taken so long. WhenI ran Firefox under Gnome no problems,everything was as it should be. So youridea that it is basically a KDE problem
looks to be correct. Where I go fromhere I have no idea.Stewart I find this situation a constant annoyance as well. You have, unfortunately, several issues involved, none of which is completely
resolveable until everybody is on board with the freedesktop.org standard, but you can get everything to a reasonably stable state that you can deal with.
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