feisty: GNOME, Firefox/Thunderbird and fonts

[Marc Rios]

In firefox you can go to Edit->Preferences->Content and in the section
"Fonts and colors" you can change the font of firefox, I think thunderbird
its the same!

2007/8/24, Rashkae <ubuntu at tigershaunt.com>:
>
> Kristian Rink wrote:
> > Folks;
> >
> > please have a look at the screen shot attached: Running feisty, I am
> > mainly using GTK2 applications and GNOME as my default desktop. Mainly
> > my GUI looks rather pleasing, except for Firefox and Thunderbird which,
> > looking at the fonts, don't seem to use the same configuration the rest
> > of the applications do. Why? Is there a good way of forcing these two
> > beasts to provide the same visual appearance every other GTK2 app does?
> >
> > Thanks in advance and bye,
> > Kristian
> >
> >
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
>
> Unfortunately, Firefox/Thunderbird are not 'Gnome' applications per say,
> and do not use the Gnome Settings for their fonts.  There is no *easy*
> way to fix this, but it's doable.
>
> The default font used by the Interface should be Sans.  You can make
> your system change the default Sans font to anything you want in your
> /etc/fonts/local.conf file.  Insert something like this:
>
>          <alias>
>                  <family>sans-serif</family>
>                  <prefer>
>                          <family>Arial</family>
>                  </prefer>
>          </alias>
>
>
> Note: the local.conf file should start with:
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?><!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
> <fontconfig>
>
>
> and end with:
>
> </fontconfig>
>
> If you want to further customize Firefox itself, you need to find your
> profile directory.. Example:
> /home/.mozilla/firefox/somegibberish.default/chrome
> Copy the userChrome-example.css to userChrome.css and edit that file to
> make changes.. It should be easy to see how to change the font sizes,
> and you can further specify the font you want here.  The trickiest part
> to editing this file is figuring out how to uncomment the sections of
> code.
>
> The commented sections are denoted like so:
>
> /*
> *  This is a comment
> *
> * * { And here we have code
> *
> * }
> *
> *
> *
> *
> */
>
>
> If you wanted to make a change to such a section, you have to edit it as
> follows:
>
> /*
> *  This is a comment
> */
>   * { And here we have code
>
>   }
>
> /*
> *
> *
> */
>
> Notice how there still remains a * in front of the {
>
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