Re: tweaking Firefox and Thunderbird

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:33:01 +0100, Hadron wrote:
Michael Perry <mperry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 09:39:46 -0600, Dan C wrote:
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007 21:45:52 +1100, z1 wrote:

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 :)

If you're that big of a ***, then you'll have to live with the fonts
the way they are. Sheesh.



You could also try adding in some truetype fonts. On my debian testing
system, I can add msttcorefonts which gives me a few nice fonts to use with
firefox and thunderbird. If you want nicer fonts, you are gonna have to go
play with scared...

I've also copied a bunch of fonts from a windows system here when it was
not looking and installed them in Gnome. I imagine adding fonts is just as
easy on KDE; though I admit to not having used KDE for some years.


"easy" is not how I would describe handling fonts on any Linux distro to
be honest.

Well, my recipe seems pretty easy on Gnome. I copy fonts from a zip
archive to the Gnome fonts folder. I seem to wait a moment or so and then
they are available. I remember a bit in the past having to do a few
interesting machinations with font servers and folders and magical spells
and then maybe your fonts would actually show up :-)

Seriously, though, perhaps easier is a better term. Easier than what it
was. In the past 10 or so years of my involvement with Linux, font
management has become significantly easier. Perhaps not easy but easier...

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