I would like very much to change the fonts that Firefox uses from Sans-Serif to a Serif font. All of the fixes for this issue that I've found on the web advocate using GTK-QT-engine and GTK Styles and Fonts to fix this, but it's not working for me. After verifying that GTK-QT-engine (trinity-gtk-qt-engine) is installed, I shut down all instances of Firefox, then used the Trinity Control Center to set "Use my TDE style in GTK2 applications", "Use my TDE style in GTK3 applications", and "Use my TDE fonts in GTK2 applications"; but after restarting Firefox, the same old Sans-Serif fonts are displayed in all Firefox menus, dialogs, etc. I also tried "Use another (GTK2) font, specifying "Droid Serif (size 9)", but that didn't work either. There is no GTK3 Fonts section in GTK Styles and Fonts, so I can't explicitly tell TDE to change the GTK3 fonts. Is there another way to tell Firefox (and other GTK apps) to use a different font without installing all of Gnome?
Leslie
On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 21:02:32 -0500 Leslie Turriff jlturriff@mail.com wrote:
I would like very much to change the fonts that Firefox uses from Sans-Serif to a Serif font. All of the fixes for this issue that I've found on the web advocate using GTK-QT-engine and GTK Styles and Fonts to fix this, but it's not working for me. After verifying that GTK-QT-engine (trinity-gtk-qt-engine) is installed, I shut down all instances of Firefox, then used the Trinity Control Center to set "Use my TDE style in GTK2 applications", "Use my TDE style in GTK3 applications", and "Use my TDE fonts in GTK2 applications"; but after restarting Firefox, the same old Sans-Serif fonts are displayed in all Firefox menus, dialogs, etc. I also tried "Use another (GTK2) font, specifying "Droid Serif (size 9)", but that didn't work either. There is no GTK3 Fonts section in GTK Styles and Fonts, so I can't explicitly tell TDE to change the GTK3 fonts. Is there another way to tell Firefox (and other GTK apps) to use a different font without installing all of Gnome?
First, i suggest uninstalling all gtk-qt stuff, it usually cause more problems than its solves.
Second, do you want to change Firefox font specifically, or all gtk apps? Because the easiest ways to deal with firefox is chrome/userChrome.css file in you firefox profile or "Theme Font & Size Changer" addon.
For all gtk apps you will have to manually create and edit config files. Here is the good guide to it https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B
On 2016-11-04 22:51:59 Nick Koretsky wrote:
On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 21:02:32 -0500
Leslie Turriff jlturriff@mail.com wrote:
I would like very much to change the fonts that Firefox uses from Sans-Serif to a Serif font. All of the fixes for this issue that I've found on the web advocate using GTK-QT-engine and GTK Styles and Fonts to fix this, but it's not working for me. After verifying that GTK-QT-engine (trinity-gtk-qt-engine) is installed, I shut down all instances of Firefox, then used the Trinity Control Center to set "Use my TDE style in GTK2 applications", "Use my TDE style in GTK3 applications", and "Use my TDE fonts in GTK2 applications"; but after restarting Firefox, the same old Sans-Serif fonts are displayed in all Firefox menus, dialogs, etc. I also tried "Use another (GTK2) font, specifying "Droid Serif (size 9)", but that didn't work either. There is no GTK3 Fonts section in GTK Styles and Fonts, so I can't explicitly tell TDE to change the GTK3 fonts. Is there another way to tell Firefox (and other GTK apps) to use a different font without installing all of Gnome?
First, i suggest uninstalling all gtk-qt stuff, it usually cause more problems than its solves.
Second, do you want to change Firefox font specifically, or all gtk apps?
Actually, all GTK apps; Firefox is just the one that bugs me the most.
Because the easiest ways to deal with firefox is chrome/userChrome.css file in you firefox profile or "Theme Font & Size Changer" addon.
You appear to misunderstand my request. I'm not (as much) concerned with the content of web pages as the fonts used to display file pickers, configuration dialogs, menus, etc., components of Firefox itself.
For all gtk apps you will have to manually create and edit config files. Here is the good guide to it https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GTK%2B
Thanks, I will take a look at that.
On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 00:28:06 -0500 Leslie Turriff jlturriff@mail.com wrote:
Because the easiest ways to deal with firefox is chrome/userChrome.css file in you firefox profile or "Theme Font & Size Changer" addon.
You appear to misunderstand my request. I'm not (as much) concerned with the content of web pages as the fonts used to display file pickers, configuration dialogs, menus, etc., components of Firefox itself.
Firefox GUI is written ix XUL and can be edited with css markup using that file (or addons)
On 2016-11-05 01:53:11 Nick Koretsky wrote:
On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 00:28:06 -0500
Leslie Turriff jlturriff@mail.com wrote:
Because the easiest ways to deal with firefox is chrome/userChrome.css file in you firefox profile or "Theme Font & Size Changer" addon.
You appear to misunderstand my request. I'm not (as much) concerned with the content of web pages as the fonts used to display file pickers, configuration dialogs, menus, etc., components of Firefox itself.
Firefox GUI is written ix XUL and can be edited with css markup using that file (or addons)
So I started looking for information on XUL, and found this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL/Tutorial/Modifying... which might fit the bill, but seems to be talking about Chrome, not Firefox. I also ran across this: http://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-changes-firefox-apis-developers-unhappy...
On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 21:24:47 -0500 Leslie Turriff jlturriff@mail.com wrote:
On 2016-11-05 01:53:11 Nick Koretsky wrote:
On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 00:28:06 -0500
Leslie Turriff jlturriff@mail.com wrote:
Because the easiest ways to deal with firefox is chrome/userChrome.css file in you firefox profile or "Theme Font & Size Changer" addon.
You appear to misunderstand my request. I'm not (as much) concerned with the content of web pages as the fonts used to display file pickers, configuration dialogs, menus, etc., components of Firefox itself.
Firefox GUI is written ix XUL and can be edited with css markup using that file (or addons)
So I started looking for information on XUL, and found this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Tech/XUL/Tutorial/Modifying... which might fit the bill, but seems to be talking about Chrome, not Firefox.
Google hijacked the name "Chrome" comparatively recently. Before that, it was sometimes used to refer to the appearance of a program. The names of those Firefox files and directories go back more than a decade, to when Google was just a little baby search engine. ;)
I also ran across this: http://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-changes-firefox-apis-developers-unhappy...
Yes, the Mozilla devs have announced their intention of dropping XUL, but they haven't actually done so yet. Palemoon will be keeping it, so there will still be a XUL-based browser available.
Firefox's UI fonts on my system are still responding to either my GTK2 or GTK3 configuration files and coming up as 12-point Times New Roman, but I have no idea which file it's answering to or how long it will continue doing so (and some other UI elements, like the "searching for updates" progress bar, were not displaying correctly when I opened the browser to test that, so its GTK support is messed up again in some way).
E. Liddell
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