Anno domini 03:08:19 Fri, 13 Dec 2019 +0100 (CET) Felmon Davis scripsit: > On Thu, 12 Dec 2019, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Thursday 12 December 2019 09:43:14 Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: > > > >>>>>> First try to increase the DPI settings. If it works, you are > >>>>>> done. (~/.trinity/share/config/startupconfig: > >>>>>> kcmfonts_general_forcefontdpi="96") > >>>>> > >>>>> yeah, that's already set. > >>>> > >>>> Out of couriosity: what value did you put there and did it change > >>>> "something"? > >>> > >>> it's been 96. > >>> > >>> I have tried something else (I believe '120', not sure why I > picked > >>> that) and it improved some things and made other things worse - had > >>> me jumping from config file to config file. somehow I've achieved > >>> equilibrium with 96. > >>> > >>> and Firefox is a demon! ended up writing userChrome.css rules but > >>> strangely Firefox-esr (68.3.0esr) seems to honor them but Firefox > >>> 71.0 seems to ignore them. (I did the magic of trying to force it to > >>> read the file, etc.) > >> > >> Firefox uses GTK3, and that's a pestilence on it's own. > > > > I am glad to see that someone else is hammering on gtk3 Nik. gtk2 was > > 1000% more usefull. gtk3 must be a committee design. lol. > > it's maddening. > > the command "fgrep -iR font ~/.trinity/share/config/*" was very > helpful. at one point it helped solve the issue I started with, viz. > teensy fonts in "TDE Control Module" windows. > > then, out of the blue, Firefox-bin (v. 71.0) looked ugly - huge fonts > in the tabs - and pan newsreader equally grotesque. don't have careful > enough notes to infer if I did something to trigger it. > > not the most welcome reason for procratinating but it is too > distracting for work (that's my excuse anyway) so I fooled around and > upping DPI to 120 has fixed a lot of it though not sure it will stick > the next time I boot out and up. > > I still can't quite get Firefox to behave; I'm essentially running > Firefox-esr. Firefor 71.0 just ignores userChrome.css and I cannot > find the magic gtk spell for it. > > but for a deadline I'm tempted to wipe q4os and just do a Debian (or > Devuan) with TDE but that may be misplacing the blame. > > fjd > My notes say this about high DPI mode & Firefox (it sets a kind of pixe-to pixel zoom factor): about:config --> layout.css.devPixelsPerPx=2 Nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
