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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Some E17 questions

1. How do I turn off the customized cursors? I love this desktop shell, but the cursors are seriously ugly, so I'd prefer to stick with the default X cursor.

2. How do I get Evidence to open specific filetypes with specific apps? And why doesn't the "create directory" function work, when everything else does?

3. Probably unrelated, but... Why doesn't Firefox use the font that I specify with gtk-theme-switch2, when everything else does?

Cam

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From: Brisbane, Aus

Registered: 2004-12-21

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Re: Some E17 questions

3. You'll need to restart Firefox for the font changes to take effect fully. I use gtk-chtheme and when I change themes/fonts, Firefox generally looks borked until I restart it.

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shadowhand

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Re: Some E17 questions

1. You can't, because the cursor is part of theme. Notice that when the cursor isn't over something controlled by E17 (like inside of Firefox) the cursor goes back the default X cursor.

2. Evidence is very very pre-beta.

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Gullible Jones

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Registered: 2004-12-29

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Re: Some E17 questions

1. Damn. They should make "pretty" cursors optional...

2. Ahh, I thought it had been developed a bit. Ah well, shame... It looks quite nice.

3. I know about that - the problem is that the font changes failed to take effect after restarting Firefox. Sorry if I wasn't clear enough.

Thanks anyway...

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

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Re: Some E17 questions

3) Edit --> Preferences --> General --> Fonts & Colors

smoon

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Registered: 2005-08-22

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Re: Some E17 questions

3. I think you can change the font size of Firefox's UI by editing the userChrome.css in your profile's chrome directory.

* {
  font-size: 15pt !important
}

should change all fonts to 15 points in size. It's just simple CSS, so font-family should change the font family . For some more examples, have a look at http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#usercss.

Gullible Jones

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Re: Some E17 questions

I'm not talking about the fonts used by websites, I'm talking about those used by the widgets. Firefox emulates the appearence of a GTK app, so it should use the same fonts - and in fact it does, if you use the gnome-settings-daemon to specify the font. I think the problem is the way that gtk-theme-switch2 specifies the font in .gtkrc-2.0 - it doesn't look standard...

smoon

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Re: Some E17 questions

I'm not talking about the fonts used by websites, I'm talking about those used by the widgets.

That's what the userChrome.css file is for. userContent.css is for changing the way websites look.

Firefox emulates the appearence of a GTK app, so it should use the same fonts - and in fact it does, if you use the gnome-settings-daemon to specify the font. I think the problem is the way that gtk-theme-switch2 specifies the font in .gtkrc-2.0 - it doesn't look standard...

Maybe Firefox is querying gnome-settings-daemon, gconfd or something (I don't know that much about how Gnome works) to ask what font it should use.