Installing Firefox messes up fonts in Puppy [SOLVED]

[lvds]

Hi,

I have a very annoying font problem, i hope someone can help me to solve.

After install of firefox, the fonts in the firefox menus, or on the JWM menu, as also on some other windows (but not all) have become little as 8 sized and seems to be space variable. Like if the default font system size have been changed, though on some other windows they are still like 12 sized: it depends on the application running, some are ok while some are not.

Does anyone know how to solve this problem ?
Is there a place to setup the size of the default system fonts ?

Thanks in advance for any help.

[lvds]

Hi,

I found in /usr/share/fonts/defaults a readme.txt explaining the following, which is exactly the problem i have but i don't know how to return to normal:

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NOV06 (v2.12):
Major overhaul! The "Sans" font was mapping to Type1 "Nimbus sans L",
which was the only scalable sans-serif font in Puppy. It comes in
'condensed' and 'normal' but even the normal looks squashed.
So, have intalled Bitstream Vera TTF fonts, see the link here.
The 'TTF' directory is about 1.5M, the 'Type1' dir was about 5.0M
-- but, I have hacked it down to about 1M! -- but need to be
careful, especially check can open all '.ps' and '.pdf' files
-- if not, will have to grab more fonts out of the original 'Type1'
directory.
Now, 'Sans' defaults to a Bitstream TTF font, looks very nice.

[idlog]

Hello Everybody,
Installed Firefox 2.0.0.1 Using dot pup.The Fonts Looks Garbled Without Any Space Between Them. But Those Look Ok in Seamonkey default Browser In puppy 2.13, Running X-org With 1024*768*24bit resolution.
A Happy Puppy 2.13 User On Acer Laptop 1.73 Ghz(2MB L2 Cache,533MHz FSB),256Mb Ram,15'' XGA TFT LCD,Intel On Board Graphix Card 900,Broadcom Ethernet 10/100 Lan Card,80 GB HDD Samsung,
All Hardware Detected By puppy Without Any Major Input,Booting in 10 Min. & Onto Internet In 15 Minutes Installing Firewall,Setting Up Network Interface Via Connect Icon On Desktop.
Thanx To All Developers For This Great Distro.
Pls. Resolve This Font Issue.

[jonyo]

Wow that was fast!
Try out Opera...might be better

[lvds]

Hi,

I finally solved the problem. It has been discussed here
http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 94&t=16149

edit your /root/.mozilla/firefox/xxx.default/chrome/userChrome.css
and add the following:

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   * {
   font-size: 9pt !important;
   font-family: DejaVu Sans !important; 
}

Living in 1024x768, font size 9pt is ok for me but your mileage may vary

Best regards,
Laurent.