Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2000 09:24:37 +0530 From: Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> To: Ben Williams <williamsl@home.com> Cc: Theo Bell <freebsd@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: netscape Message-ID: <20000417092436.C1808@theory1.physics.iisc.ernet.in> In-Reply-To: <4751.000416@home.com>; from williamsl@home.com on Sun, Apr 16, 2000 at 06:02:38PM -0400 References: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004161830070.79081-100000@cfdnet.me.tuns.ca> <4751.000416@home.com>
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If you're having this problem with other apps also: XFree86 uses
75dpi fonts by default, which look pretty small on high-resolution
screens. You could change it to use 100dpi fonts by default. Edit
/etc/XF86Config, look for the FontPath lines, and change the order of
the following lines
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
to
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled"
and restart your X server.
Also, you can set up XFree86 to cycle through available
screen resolutions (eg if base is 1024x768, you can also use
800x600 and 640x480) by using the "hot keys" ctrl alt + and
ctrl alt -
Then you can zoom in the entire screen with these hot keys.
Your "virtual desktop" will now be bigger than your physical
screen size and you can move around it with a mouse.
Ben Williams said on Apr 16, 2000 at 18:02:38:
> Yes but that's 'the long way' and not what I wanted to be able to
> do. I've already mucked about with the 'base font sizes' (for lack of
> a better term) but still some pages have tiny unreadable fonts
> ("dynamic fonts" ?) and I would like the ability to ^] (also View
> ->Increase Font) to increase the font-size "on-the-fly" without having
> to muck about with menus and prefs or to at least have a shorter path
> to follow through the menus if I can't get the hotkey to work.
>
> Thanks for the advise anyway.
>
> Still looking for a "fix".
> --Ben Williams
> mailto:received@email dot com
>
> Quoting Theo Bell Sunday, April 16, 2000
>
> TB> You can change the font sizes in Edit->Preferences->Appearance->Fonts
>
>
> TB> Theo
>
> TB> On Sun, 16 Apr 2000, Ben Williams wrote:
>
> >> I have the port listed below installed and it works mostly but I
> >> have been unable to get font resizing (View -> Increase Font) to work
> >> (it's greyed out) and I have yet to find any sort of howto for this.
> >> Can someone give me a pointer on how to get font resizing to work?
> >>
> >> --Ben Williams
> >> mailto:received@email dot com
> >>
> >> Quoting Simon Clayton Sunday, April 16, 2000
> >> SC> I have built 4.0 on a brand new machine, I did install the Linux
> >> SC> compatible stuff but then I installed communicator from
> >>
> >> SC> /usr/ports/www/netscape47-communicator
> >>
> >> SC> which uses
> >>
> >> SC> communicator-v472-export.x86-unknown-freebsd.tar.gz
> >>
> >> SC> and it all works perfectly on my machine.
> >>
> >> SC> I think the linux stuff may be a red herring.
> >>
> >> SC> Simon
> >>
> >> SC> -----Original Message-----
> >> SC> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> >> SC> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Stephen M.
> >> SC> Vincent
> >> SC> Sent: 14 April 2000 15:24
> >> SC> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> >> SC> Subject: Re: netscape
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> SC> Jason Barnes wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> Arg, I just installed release 4.0 (and set my old 3.x hard
> >> SC> drive
> >> >> aside), but I can't seem to get netscape working on the new system
> >> >> . . . It complains that it can't find "libXt.so.6.0", but a brief
> >> SC> find
> >> >> reveals it to be located in /usr/compat/linux/usr/X11R6/lib. What's
> >> SC> the
> >> >> deal? What do I have to do to let netscape know where to find the
> >> >> dynamically linked stuff? Thanks!
> >> >>
> >> >> - Jason
> >> >>
> >> >> ld.so failed: Can't find shared library "libXt.so.6.0"
> >>
> >> SC> I'm having the exact same problem! I asked this question last week and
> >> SC> it
> >> SC> was suggested that I look at "ldconfig -r" which shows "libXt.so.6.0"
> >> SC> is installed.
> >> SC> Someone else suggested to check that "libXt.so.6.0" might be a symlink
> >> SC> to itself or something else, which is not the case. The real deal
> >> SC> exists right where it should be. Someone else suggests that what
> >> SC> Netscape is really looking for is a.out, which is also on my system.
> >>
> >> SC> Does anyone else have a clue? Jason and I are stumped.
> >> SC> --
> >> SC> Stephen M. Vincent
> >> SC> ------------------
> >> SC> http://www.hickseq.com
> >> SC> http://www.fifthsunfilms.com
> >>
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