On Thu, 12 Dec 2019, Felix Miata wrote:
Felmon Davis composed on 2019-12-13 03:08 (UTC+0100):
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.
Try tqtconfig to set qt font size for KControl applets. In Buster it comes from
tqt3-qtconfig.
first I have to note my earlier attempt did not succeed in enlarging
the fonts on the "TDE Control Module" and similar windows - I was
mistaken I think.
yesterday I downloaded tqtconfig but I didn't see any results.
(ironically it itself is in a teensy font size. I may be missing
something so I'll play with it again.
The real magic is to not use MozillaFirefox. Instead, use firefox-esr. Its
annoying regressive changes occur less often than once per year instead of every
6-10 weeks. Another option is to use palemoon (newmoon in some distros), which is
a fork of Firefox created back around FF28 or thereabouts.
I see subsequent discussion about this suggestion. I have both esr and
71.0 and esr plays fine with userChrome.css but 71.0 is not
responsive.
*however* I have domesticated FF 71.0 somehow, we'll see if it lasts
through the next session log-out or re-boot. I don't know how. I get
the impression that setting DPI to 120 and then *back* to 96 may have
brought it to its senses. this is speculative; I'll try to make more
observations.
If your distro doesn't offer esr even via a ppa, you can uninstall its package and
use the version provided by mozilla.org:
http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/68.3.0esr/
Using the mozilla.org version allows the possibility to more easily exercise
control over when its updates occur.
If you use a fresh virgin profile, does the problem remain?
What does
xrdb -query | grep dpi
right now DPI is 96. I'll try the profile experiment a bit later.
through foolin' around I now how several profiles. that's no problem,
I'll sort it out.
strangely FF 71.0 will complain if I try to force certain profiles
(esr ones) and refuse to start.
report? This is the mechanism Gnome/GTK observes for controlling DPI. Kcontrol
uses it, but allows only the options 96 and 120. If you leave it at default (not
controlled), then you can set it to anything you like via Xft.dpi in ~/.Xresources
or ~/.Xdefaults. GTK3 since version 3.17 forces it to 96 instead of leaving it
null unless something forces it to something else, or you are using openSUSE,
which reverted upstream's abusive imposition. I haven't checked. There could be
other distros that have also reverted it.
good information.
not openSUSE but something called q4os.
Instead of literally creating a new profile to test with if you find it too
intimidating, you can back up the profile directory, then empty it before
restarting Firefox. After the test, delete the content again, then restore from
the backup. A read of ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini will tell you the name of
the directory whose content to delete, the actual profilename. Don't delete the
directory, only its (entire) content. Alternatively, create another directory,
then substitute that directory for the directory name in profiles.ini for making
the test.
yeah, like I said, I got plenty of profiles now!
so where I stand is:
(a) in general things are kind of satisfactory but I'm not sure how
stable;
(b) the teensy font problem on the TDE Control windows is still there;
(c) I don't think tqtconfig worked but I should try again;
(d) the situation of Firefox-esr is fine; Firefox 71.0 is ok but not
sure it will survive a reboot or re-start of the session.
thank you for pitching in; you helped me before with this kind of
problem. I learned a bit.
fjd
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Felmon Davis
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