Re: [PLUG] mozilla goes south, huge fonts in menu

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

Good idea, I'll try it tomorrow.

I just checked /var/log/XFree86.0.log, /var/log/xdm.log, and
/var/log/xfs.log: none show anything that stands out.

-Jeff


On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 06:28:48PM -0500, Martin DiViaio wrote:
> It sounds like something is hosed in the XF86Config file or in your font
> directories.
> 
> If you are using one of the X login clients, reboot the system into 
> runlevel 3 then start X manually with:
> 
> startx > .xerrors 2>&1
> 
> Once X is up, look at the .xerrors file and see if X is complaining about 
> problems with your FontPath directives.
> 
> 
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> On the 7th day of March in the year 2003 you wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 16:14:59 -0500
> > From: Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>
> > To: PLUG <plug@lists.phillylinux.org>
> > Subject: Re: [PLUG] mozilla goes south, huge fonts in menu
> > 
> > On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 02:53:19PM -0500, Jeff Abrahamson wrote:
> > > After a power outage, I restart mozilla and the menu fonts are
> > > enormous, 100 point or more. The browser (html rendered stuff) comes
> > > up normal, but there's precious little of it for all the menus and
> > > control bars.
> > > 
> > > I try mv'ing ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla_bak, and relaunching mozilla,
> > > but now I get what I imagine is the first-time launch configuration
> > > dialog. The fonts are so big that I can't do anything, not even answer
> > > the question, because I only see a few words on my 20" monitor the
> > > type is so big.
> > > 
> > > OK, so it's not in ~/.mozilla, and I don't find anything suspicious in
> > > my environment that would ask for such a thing. Any ideas what might
> > > be happening or how to fix it?
> > 
> > Stranger and stranger. Galeon has correctly sized menus, but the text
> > search controls (text entry and buttons) are enormous when displaying
> > http://www.google.com. Indeed, the problem for galeon seems to be just
> > form elements.
> > 
> > This is very strange.
> > 
> > 
> 
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