[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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