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colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

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Fonts in Firefox [SOLVED]

Hi, I have just set up LCD fonts via the wiki, everything looks so great compared to before now, including Firefox. However I can't figure out one part:

http://www.bobgill.net/fonts.jpg

Look at that, I highlighted the tab headers, the address bar and bookmarks toolbar. Same font is in saved entries in forms that pop-down. How can I change that font? Here is my font settings:

Default Font: Verdana 16
Proportional: Sans Serif 16
Serif: Times New Roman
Sans Serif: Verdana
Monospace: monospace 13

Also in about:config I changed layer.css.dpi to 0 as advised in the wiki.

Thx

Last edited by colbert (2008-01-15 05:06:53)

mintcoffee

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From: Waterloo, ON

Registered: 2007-10-05

Posts: 120

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Re: Fonts in Firefox [SOLVED]

Most likely your Firefox theme is using a font that is not installed on your computer. Does the font problem exist when you use the default theme? If ont, you may be able to override these font settings my using some settings in your userChrome.css file.

Last edited by mintcoffee (2008-01-15 03:50:29)

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colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Re: Fonts in Firefox [SOLVED]

I just reverted to the default Firefox theme, restarted FF and still the same

kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: Fonts in Firefox [SOLVED]

Which DE are you using kde/gnome/Xfce? In kde you could use the gtk-qt-engine to change the font.

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colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Re: Fonts in Firefox [SOLVED]

I am not using a DE, just fluxbox session.

kishd

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Registered: 2006-06-14

Posts: 401

Re: Fonts in Firefox [SOLVED]

Try creating a file in the home directory .gtkrc-2.0 or adding the following to it replacing the font with the one you want to use.

style "user-font"
{
    font_name="Trebuchet MS 9"
}
widget_class "*" style "user-font"

gtk-font-name="Trebuchet MS 9"

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colbert

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Registered: 2007-12-16

Posts: 809

Re: Fonts in Firefox [SOLVED]

Thank you kishd, that worked! I changed it to FreeSans 10 and it finally matches everything and looks great. Thanks a lot!!

Last edited by colbert (2008-01-15 05:06:42)

Endperform

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From: Atlanta GA, USA

Registered: 2007-09-04

Posts: 94

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Re: Fonts in Firefox [SOLVED]

I have this same exact issue, which only seems to have started recently.  I'm in Gnome (for the moment) and tried this .gtkrc-2.0 fix.  I'm not sure what's going on, as all I had done was run a system upgrade recently.  In addition, Thunderbird is showing the same problem, yet all of my other GTK apps look fine.  *shrugs*  Weird.

Agent69

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Registered: 2006-05-26

Posts: 189

Re: Fonts in Firefox [SOLVED]

I don't run a DE but I want able to fix this with GTK-Chtheme, which let me set the font I wanted to use for Firefox.