[Tfug] Firefox pretty recipe

Jeff Breadner jeff at breadner.net
Mon May 5 20:19:17 MST 2008


Bowie J. Poag wrote:
> 99% of people's complaints about Firefox's aesthetic appeal can be 
> resolved in five steps.
>
> 0) Exit out of X11 and drop to a console.
> 1) Edit ~/.gtkrc-2.0, and add the following line:  gtk-font-name = 
> "UnDotum 10"
> 2) apt-get install ttf-un* ...this will install a few nice TrueType fonts.
> 3) Launch X, go to Firefox, go to Preferences, and set all proportional 
> fonts in Firefox to use UnDotum 10
> 4) Download the "Modern" theme for Firefox and use it.
>   
Thanks for that, that font actually helped Thunderbird out a lot, and 
having FireFox look better was just a bit of a bonus.

cheers
  JB




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