[KLUG Members] Better fonts in Linux web browsers?

[Bruce Smith]

> > 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...

It's true that I run most of my desktops at 1280x1024, but I have
nothing smaller than a 19" monitor to compensate.

> ...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....

I removed the setting from gdm.conf now.  I found a better/easier 
way to specify it.  In Redhat 8.0, if you go to the menu: 

  System-Settings -> Display  

the new configuration GUI lets you select DPI!
(it modifies your monitor size in XF86Config)

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Bruce Smith                bruce@armintl.com
System Administrator / Network Administrator
Armstrong International, Inc.
Three Rivers, Michigan  49093  USA
http://www.armstrong-intl.com/
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