Re: tweaking Firefox and Thunderbird

z1 wrote:

something cleaner and more petite

what's your linux OS and desktop environment?

kde / PCLinuxOS

OK, you understand that firefox and thunderbird are GTK apps? ;-)
you using KDE, so check under "KDE personel settings"
looks & themes - GTK styles and fonts
http://users.telenet.be/photo-memories/img/kde-fonts_settings.png

my fonts are Sans Serif 9 in KDE & GTK apps
you can also check "looks & themes - Fonts"


did you try to change the fonts in Firefox and Thunderbird?

you mean where you have fixed, proportional and serif and so on?
that area has me sort of scared  :)


fixed? hum, now you are not correct
i have no big fonts :-p
i think that PCLinuxOS missed that part, our maby yourself.
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EOS
www.photo-memories.be
Running KDE 3.5.8 / openSUSE 10.3
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