Firefox 3 default page zoom missing …

Mathias Lux — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 10:05:17 +0000

On my eee PC I really need a browser, which allows zooming the whole page. While using opera a lot I also like Firefox 3 a lot as it runs rather fast and consumes less memory than Firefox 2. However there is one thing, which is really annoying: Firefox 3 does not allow users to set a default zoom level to start with, which is a rather hand feature for my eee PC 701 .

Fortunately a clever developer found the problem and prepared an add-on, which allows default zoom levels and much more: No Squint … thanks go to Jason Tackaberry.

Links:

No Squint – original home page
No Squint – at mozilla.org

Asus EEE PC: Enable full screen

Mathias Lux — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 09:00:14 +0000

First thing with the eee pc was to find out how to enable full screen in IceWM. Full screen in the window manager results in maximized windows without decorations. Therefore one has a lot more space for the actual program (e.g. xterm or Thunderbird).

First of all you need to copy the icewm preferences to your home dir (open terminal with CTRL-ALT-t):

/home/user> mkdir ~/.icewm
/home/user> cp /etc/X11/icewm/preferences /home/user/.icewm

Then you need to edit those preferences, e.g. with kwrite.

/home/user> kwrite /home/user/.icewm/preferences

Search for ”AllowFullscreen” and remove the “#” at the beginning of the line. Check if it is set to “1″.

After restarting your IceWM (e.g. with CTRL-AL-BACKSPACE) you can make use of the fullscreen mode in all applications by hitting ALT-F11.

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Firefox 3 default page zoom missing …

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