Opera Browser not Friendly To Old EYes

[Leonard Chatagnier]

 On 2007/06/22 16:11 (GMT-0700) Leonard Chatagnier
apparently typed:

> Just had to download, try out Opera Browser. Very
> small menu print just kills my 70 yr. old eyes.  I
> couldn't read it with a magnifing glass it's so
small.
>  Therefore setting it up is impossible for me.  I
can
> adjust the uri print size easily enough to read it
but
> not the drop down menus.  Is it possible to adjust
the
> drop down menu print size and how do you do it? 
These
> old eyes thank you for any help.

Opera is really dumb in this regard. So, with Opera
closed, find $HOME/.opera/opera6.ini and add somewhere
under [User Prefs] and before [State] the following:

Force DPI=120

Reopen Opera to test. If still too small, try again
with a bigger number. Multiples of 12 seem to work
best, with 96 preferred for compatibility with some
web sites that set fonts in absolute sizes.
But before tweaking, you should go into its prefs and
set the UI fonts much bigger. Ideally Opera should run
as everything else in X, so check the XServer output
in KControl or whatever its equivalent
is if you run Gnome. 'xdpyinfo | grep dpi' from an X
terminal will provide that information too. If you
take Firefox or Epiphany to
http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/auth/dpi-screen-window.html
you should see
reported the greater of the DPI X is using or 96.
Whatever that is is what you want Opera to report as
well. Once you've done this DPI matching it's time to
go back into Opera's prefs to perform your
final UI font size tweak.
  
Thanks Felix for this good info.  I couldn't get 
'xdpyinfo | grep dpi' to work from Xterminal or
konsole with or without sudo; just got the usual
cursor return.  Could not find anything in kcontrol
regarding Xserver output or anything remotely
related.  I must be missing something.
Visited the reference uri with Opera and my other
browsers.  The others all had 96 dpi but Opera had
something like 20px and the image measured 1-7/8"
instead or 1".  Other browsers had 96 dpi and measured
1".  After playing around with fonts & sizes in
preferences the dpi stayed at 120 but the image
reduced to 175".  So, to make all have the same 96 dpi
changed the opera6.ini to "Force DPI=96 but the dpi
screen uri stilled showed 120 dpi.  Closed Opera again
and closed out X(KDE) and restarted.  The test page
still showed 120 dpi, measured 1.75" and the UA
default font size showed 24 px.  I must be doing
something wrong.  How do I get the Opera dpi to read
96?  The dropdowns are still readable and I have no
trouble picking a font and setting size, bold, etc.
from the preferences.  Further help needed.
TIA,



Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net