Re: [SLE] really big fonts in mozilla and firefox

From: Abram B Olson (oabram_at_u.washington.edu)
Date: 03/31/05

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    When you are sitting here in front of my monitor, the fonts in firefox's
    menus look about twice as big (and maybe bold?) as the fonts in other
    applications menus. They realy stand out because all of the other
    applications fit together so well.

    Abe

    Kevanf1 wrote:
    > On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 22:38:45 -0800, Abram B Olson
    > <oabram@u.washington.edu> wrote:
    >
    >>Ok sure. There is nothing wrong with the fonts in the pages that firefox
    >>displays. The problem is in the application inself.
    >>
    >>You can see a screenshot here: http://70.56.94.211/snapshot1.png
    >> http://70.56.94.211/snapshot2.png
    >>
    >>You can see that the font in the mozilla menu are very large in
    >>comparison to the fonts in thunderbird and the kde desktop.
    >>
    >>Abe
    >>
    >>Felix Miata wrote:
    >>
    >>>Abram B Olson wrote:
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>>So, both mozilla and firefox have really enormous fonts, not in the
    >>>>webpages but in the applications themselves. I've spent about an hour
    >>>>trying to fix this by adjusting the font sizes in both the applications
    >>>>and in the kde preferences but nothing changes the enormoun fonts.
    >>>>Anyone who can help will have my eternal gratitude ;-)
    >>>
    >>>
    >>>The only way to know what you mean by "enormous" is give us a link to a
    >>>screenshot showing the problem, but see generally:
    >>>http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html
    >>
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    > Hmmm, this is rather puzzling. From the screenshots you have
    > submitted everything looks fine to me. Is it just me?
    >

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