

KDE3 / Firefox question {SOLVED}
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Posted 18 March 2012 - 04:45 PM
One of my favorite distros, still, is Slax 612, a couple years old by now. It runs KDE 3.5.10 as a gui. It has had various upgrades of Firefox over the times, just yesterday put up 11.0. And I see the same problem that has troubled me all this time with Firefox on that distro:
The font used for the internal dialog boxes, for example the URL text, Bookmarks text, and Edit Preferences menus -- is too small for my eyes, and is in a weak blue color that has very little contrast with the background. Where do I change this?
I'm fairly sure this is a "GTK" issue; on some distros there's a 'GTK Fonts' button in Control Center that does it, but it ain't there in Slax. This text is not related to the text seen in the body of a displayed web page [set in FF Edit/Preferences/Content], nor is it affected by changes to the standard KDE fonts page in Control Center under Appearance.
Any help appreciated.
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Posted 18 March 2012 - 05:26 PM
Keep us posted on your progress.

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Posted 18 March 2012 - 05:51 PM
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Posted 19 March 2012 - 05:49 AM


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Posted 19 March 2012 - 09:04 AM



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Posted 19 March 2012 - 11:33 AM



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Posted 19 March 2012 - 12:08 PM
Ahhhh ... relief at last, that worked. Thanks a bunch for this Extension link. Worked on the new 11.0 and an older 3.6.25 version.
I visited the kde-themes site, but left confused -- didn't see anything there that appeared to address my needs.
As an aside to this issue, I'm in wonderment at the variety of font size specs seen in KDE; my font spec in Control Center/Appearance is a mix of 9pt and 10pt, but in Firefox/Prefs I have to set them all to 16pt to get similar size. For the KDE menus under question I chose 13pt -- they all use different size systems. In each case, X has concluded that my dpi figure is 98, which is pretty close to a calculated value (1680x1050 on a 20" monitor).
Edit: I looked for a way to mark this [solved] but didn't find it -- maybe a mod can fix that.
Edit-2: if anyone else cares, the file that changed after my mods is named "gtkrc-2.0", several levels down under /root/.kde/... I looked at it with a text editor, but would have no idea what values to change.
Edited by burninbush, 19 March 2012 - 12:26 PM.
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Posted 19 March 2012 - 01:44 PM

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Posted 19 March 2012 - 03:40 PM

LOL, I'm the Crown Prince Of No-No, so it's OK for me. I don't want to argue about it, heard it all before, and reckon if I ever have a problem from running as root I might reconsider. Booting the standard issue Slax distro [same as numerous others] brings you up to the KDE desktop (init 4) already logged in as root. I understand there would be other copies of the file, if this machine even had a user account.
As for the rc file, even knowing the file name, I dunno what any mortal human could do about modifying it. Nothing in it says 'font size' or color.
How does one add the [solved] to the thread title?
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Posted 19 March 2012 - 04:11 PM
I can change it for you if you like




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"Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain." -George Orwell, 1984
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Posted 19 March 2012 - 05:01 PM

Thanks, it's already changed [by someone]. I was just under the impression that a user could edit the thread name somehow, but I couldn't find the way.
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Posted 19 March 2012 - 05:07 PM
BB, it's your system. If you wanna' run as root, no biggie. The standard SLAX logs you in as root, because it's designed as a portable Linux. There is no regular user in that set up. I don't run SLAX as a regular distribution. I only use it as a thumb drive tool. I suppose there is a way to add a regular user, though, should you want to.
From the command line as root:
#adduser
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Posted 19 March 2012 - 05:08 PM
Yeah well, I figured I would ask him first.



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"Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain." -George Orwell, 1984
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Posted 19 March 2012 - 05:22 PM
He had already requested it in a post prior to the one you quoted.
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