4 Nov
2016
4 Nov
'16
7:02 p.m.
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
4 Nov
4 Nov
8:51 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] GTK Styles and Fonts doesn't seem to work with Firefox.
On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 21:02:32 -0500
Leslie Turriff <jlturriff(a)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
--
Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky(a)gmail.com)
10:28 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] GTK Styles and Fonts doesn't seem to work with Firefox.
On 2016-11-04 22:51:59 Nick Koretsky wrote:
On Fri, 4 Nov 2016 21:02:32 -0500
Leslie Turriff <jlturriff(a)mail.com> wrote:
Actually, all GTK apps; Firefox is just the one that bugs me the most.
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.
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.
11:53 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] GTK Styles and Fonts doesn't seem to work with Firefox.
On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 00:28:06 -0500
Leslie Turriff <jlturriff(a)mail.com> wrote:
Firefox GUI is written ix XUL and can be edited with css markup using that
file (or addons)
--
Nick Koretsky (nick.koretsky(a)gmail.com)
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.
>
5 Nov
5 Nov
7:24 p.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] GTK Styles and Fonts doesn't seem to work with Firefox.
On 2016-11-05 01:53:11 Nick Koretsky wrote:
On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 00:28:06 -0500
Leslie Turriff <jlturriff(a)mail.com> wrote:
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/Modifyin…
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-unhapp…
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. 
6 Nov
6 Nov
3:49 a.m.
New subject: [trinity-users] GTK Styles and Fonts doesn't seem to work with Firefox.
On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 21:24:47 -0500
Leslie Turriff <jlturriff(a)mail.com> wrote:
On 2016-11-05 01:53:11 Nick Koretsky wrote:
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. ;)
On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 00:28:06 -0500
Leslie Turriff <jlturriff(a)mail.com> wrote:
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/Modifyin…
which might fit the bill, but seems to be talking about Chrome, not Firefox. 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. I also ran across this:
http://www.zdnet.com/article/mozilla-changes-firefox-apis-developers-unhapp…
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).
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