[gentoo-user] Cntrl menu,other browser fnts (not wwwpage fnts)-firefox

[gentoo-user] Cntrl menu,other browser fnts (not wwwpage fnts)-firefox

[reader]

Can anyone point me to documentation that tells how to control the
various non www page fonts involved in firefox?

I mean like the menus or what appears in the location box.

The kde system settings appear to be ignored.  And the help menu and
release notes appear not to talk about it at all.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cntrl menu,other browser fnts (not wwwpage fnts)-firefox

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Sunday 18 December 2005 21:24, reader@newsguy.com wrote about 
'[gentoo-user]  Cntrl menu,other browser fnts (not wwwpage fnts)-firefox':
> Can anyone point me to documentation that tells how to control the
> various non www page fonts involved in firefox?
>
> I mean like the menus or what appears in the location box.

Firefox uses gtk for rendering so you need to change your gtk theme/fonts.

> The kde system settings appear to be ignored.  And the help menu and
> release notes appear not to talk about it at all.

Since you are using kde, I suggest emerging x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt.  It 
will give you a kcontrol applet for changing your gtk theme and also 
install a theme that uses qt to render the gtk widgets.  Qt will use your 
kde theme.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cntrl menu,other browser fnts (not wwwpage fnts)-firefox

[Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.]

On Sunday 18 December 2005 23:40, reader@newsguy.com wrote about 
'[gentoo-user]  Re: Cntrl menu,other browser fnts (not wwwpage 
fnts)-firefox':
> "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.com> writes:
> > Since you are using kde, I suggest emerging x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt.
> >  It will give you a kcontrol applet for changing your gtk theme and
> > also install a theme that uses qt to render the gtk widgets.  Qt will
> > use your kde theme.
>
> Thanks, I have some major emverging going for the next few hours but
> will try that later.

You may be able to do the emerges in parallel, just make sure they aren't 
going to try and install the same package.  Sure, they'll both take 
longer, but if it's major emerging you might get to use gtk-engines-qt 
faster that way instead of waiting for the one you've already got going to 
finish.

WARNING: Parallel emerge has never borked my system, but I don't know that 
it's completely safe.  I do know is confuses the heck out of emerge 
--resume.  :(

> Maybe you'll know about another method too.  I seem to recall having a
> chrome* something file that set some of that stuff once upon a time.
> Something I'd cadged off the net. Maybe it was for plain mozilla.

Firefox has retain some of this.  I believe it's userchrome.js or something 
now.  With a simple 'equery f mozilla-firefox | grep -i chrome' I found 
some files that might be interesting under /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox.  
Those are probably global settings, there are also some chrome in my user 
directory that you can find with 'find ~/.mozilla -iname "*chrome*"'

> Anyway I don't see those kind of files under ~/.moziila anymore.  None
> with `chrome' in the name at all.

*shrug* I have some, but since I installed kde-3.5 I use the only browser 
for linux that passes the ACID 2 test.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Cntrl menu,other browser fnts (not wwwpage fnts)-firefox

[reader]

"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.com> writes:

> Since you are using kde, I suggest emerging x11-themes/gtk-engines-qt.  It 
> will give you a kcontrol applet for changing your gtk theme and also 
> install a theme that uses qt to render the gtk widgets.  Qt will use your 
> kde theme.

Thanks, I have some major emverging going for the next few hours but
will try that later.

Maybe you'll know about another method too.  I seem to recall having a
chrome* something file that set some of that stuff once upon a time.
Something I'd cadged off the net. Maybe it was for plain mozilla.

Anyway I don't see those kind of files under ~/.moziila anymore.  None
with `chrome' in the name at all.

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[gentoo-user] Re: Cntrl menu,other browser fnts (not wwwpage fnts)-firefox

[reader]

"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <bss03@volumehost.com> writes:

>> Anyway I don't see those kind of files under ~/.moziila anymore.  None
>> with `chrome' in the name at all.
>
> *shrug* I have some, but since I installed kde-3.5 I use the only browser 
> for linux that passes the ACID 2 test.

Acid 2 test ....er ?

If you mean `konq'  I'd been trying to get used to it, but today I got
so irritated with that sorry search application I fired up firefox.

The search app just dies once its made the circuit of a page.  Open a
new page and the search thing has to have its throat cut and be born
again to start working again.  Great little time waster.  But on the
other hand its the only search app (on a browser) I've seen that
allows regex.

As luck would have it, a web page is one place I rarely need or want a
regex but I'd give up a child to have regex on google.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cntrl menu,other browser fnts (not wwwpage fnts)-firefox

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 00:23:49 -0600, reader@newsguy.com wrote:

> If you mean `konq'  I'd been trying to get used to it, but today I got
> so irritated with that sorry search application I fired up firefox.
> 
> The search app just dies once its made the circuit of a page.  Open a
> new page and the search thing has to have its throat cut and be born
> again to start working again.

Press / and start typing your search string. It's been there since 3.4 (I
think) and is much faster than opening a dialog. It also loops back to
the start when it reaches the end of the page.

I agree that being able press F3 and use the same search string after
changing pages would be useful.


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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Cntrl menu,other browser fnts (not wwwpage fnts)-firefox

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 23:02:21 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> WARNING: Parallel emerge has never borked my system, but I don't know
> that it's completely safe.  I do know is confuses the heck out of
> emerge --resume.  :(

It has never cause a problem for me either. If you are worried, you could
Ctrl-Z the existing emerge before starting the new one, then restart the
original with fg.


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