[KLUG Members] Better fonts in Linux web browsers?

[Peter Buxton]

> I could guess that those sites have the absolute (instead of relative?)
> font size hardcoded, but I'd only be guessing.
>
> One such site is newsforge.org.  Maybe Jamie could explain why the type
> is so small (at least on my Linux boxes) and why changing the -dpi
> doesn't make any difference there?  Thank goodness that galeon remembers
> my zoom size for individual sites!   :-)

No offense, but I think you guys are barking up the wrong tree. Isn't it
true that IE automagically maps small fonts into larger? Some websites
don't take that into account when they write their HTML on a 640x480
screen, and then you visit it at 2300x1600 and you end up squinting. In
Mozilla, you could use a font.alias trick to map the smallest fonts to a
not-so-small size to prevent temporary blindness...

...or go to Preferences->Appearance->Font and set Minimum Font Size.

Not that the -dpi isn't cool, but I would rather not mess with a
fundamental X setting....

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