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#1 2006-07-30 19:51:39

ruhar
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Registered: 2006-07-28
Posts: 37

Firefox fonts in KDE extremely tiny

I'm experiencing what seems to be a pretty common problem with the firefox fonts appearing really small in KDE.  I've tried several things:  Installed gtk-qt-engine --> That makes gtk apps look better in kde, but doesn't solve the firefox font problem.  I've also tried altering the fonts and dpi in the firefox setttings as well.  When I start x with

startx -- -dpi 96

  That seems to blow up the fonts and firefox does appear much better.  However, is there a cleaner way to do this?  My dpi is listing at 72 right now.

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#2 2006-07-31 01:56:21

ruhar
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Registered: 2006-07-28
Posts: 37

Re: Firefox fonts in KDE extremely tiny

[SOLVED]
In firefox Edit-Preferences-Content-Fonts&Colors-Advanced-Minimum Font Size : Set to something like 13.  Defaults to None, which makes most pages ineligible.

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#3 2006-07-31 04:34:05

Gullible Jones
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Registered: 2004-12-29
Posts: 4,863

Re: Firefox fonts in KDE extremely tiny

Yep, I use 12 for XFT and 10 for Pango text rendering.

(Firefox seems to be the only Gecko browser that displays text size variations between Pango and XFT, as far as I can tell.)

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#4 2006-07-31 05:33:55

mingfal
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Registered: 2005-11-07
Posts: 32

Re: Firefox fonts in KDE extremely tiny

Yes, that's because of pango.
I used to experience the small fonts, but after I set MOZ_DISABLE_PANGO to 1 the fonts were bigger. In addition, I think the small fonts are better. tongue

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