25 April 2009

Ubuntu 9.04 & Firefox & Strange fonts

Ubuntu started using different DPI, depending on the monitor. Up to the jaunty jackalope it used default 96 dpi because some monitors did not report the true size of the monitor thus the wrong dpi.
I think it is a good improvement, the only problem is that firefox does not detect the dpi setting, not by default. So when you change the dpi setting in the System > Preferences > Apperience > Font the change is not reflected in Firefox.
To make it look good again, open the secret :-) firefox menu by writing about:config into the URL line.
Find find layout.css.dpi variable and either specify explicitly the dpi or if you put 0 firefox will get dpi setting from the system.

And voila, your screen looks nice again.

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