Netscrape Has an obvious course to change fonts for fixed and variable width and also has an arcane "Codings" setting which I use to set up custom Cyrillic fonts for the Russian penpals I have. A little tinkering is in order. Edit menu, Preferences Selection, then Appearance and fonts choices. Of Course, it would be wise to DL the extra TT fonst first.
I was annoyed by the same things you mention, with a 1024x768x32 screen on a 15" monitor. I just fixed it. I chose KDE Control Center and clicked on Desktop and then Fonts. It seems you have several categories of text you can change and you can set the size as large as 16 point for any of them. Blue Highway and BookMan, Baltar and Hydrogen Whiskey, and a nice 14-point iso-8859-1 fixed width font now grace my desktop. Much more reradable
Then I read your next message and LO-- on the KDE Control Center is a setting for KEYs which allows you to define which keystrokes do what. I'm going to use that one too
Civileme
Jo wrote:
Hi,One reason why I keep booting back to Windows, despite all Linux' virtues, is
because I can't seem to find a way to make the fonts under Linux a pleasure
to read. I don't say it's impossible to read them, but it is tiresome.
Especially in Netscape, an application I'm using a lot lately and which
allows me to compare the interfaces of NT and Linux Mandrake.
I'm running KDE on a 17" screen. The resolution is set to 1024x768 and my
eyesight is above average. Still the fonts are too small. But even when
I change the resolution they are still ugly compared to the Windows fonts.I already tried to change the fonts and their size under Netscape, but this
doesn't change anything.So, is it possible to change the fonts and their size systemwide?
Jo
-- Civileme Say: "Man who read the fine material available make wiser decisions, much wiser after some tinkering and experience."
