On Wed, Aug 06, 2003 at 04:45:23PM +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: > >I have a new Toshiba laptop with an NVidia-based card. The screen can do > >a resolution of 1600x1200. > > >I tried to use my Gnome control panel > >to increase the font size, and that works for many applications, but a > >number of applications, notably mozilla, and xmms, still use painfully > >tiny fonts. I'd rather go back to using a resolution of 1024x768, which > >is comfortable for me. > > LCDs like on laptops can't really do that. They can scale 1024x768 up to > 1600x1200 and display that, but it's /ugly/. At least in my opinion, > you're much better off just fixing the fonts in everything. > > Most fonts should be fixed by using the GNOME and KDE control panels. > Mozilla you can fix in "Edit->Preferences", choosing "Appearance" then > "fonts" in the dialog box and then increasing the font sizes shown > there. XMMS has a font option in the preferences. Most other apps will > use your GTK font settings as configured by GNOME.
Well, I've tried this. In xmms, there is a font setting, but it only changes the size of the text in the playlist box, for example. The actual xmms window remains as small as ever, with *tiny* text and buttons, which makes it hard to click the right one. Mozilla's font settings also seem to only affect the text it displays in web pages. However, mozilla's own menu and preferences box uses the same tiny fonts, that are very hard to read. So for example, the bookmarks menu item, or the toolbar has very small text. Any further pointers, anyone? -- Anand Buddhdev http://anand.org _______________________________________________ XFree86 mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xfree86
