Opera Browser not Friendly To Old EYes

[Leonard Chatagnier]

> On 2007/06/23 03:39 (GMT-0400) Leonard Chatagnier
> apparently typed:
> 
> > Felix Miata wrote:
> 
> >  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
> 
> I screwed this up. I should have written: 'xdpyinfo
> | grep resolution'
> 
> > cursor return.  Could not find anything in
> kcontrol
> > regarding Xserver output or anything remotely
> > related.  I must be missing something.
> 
> I screwed this up too. KInfoCenter, not Kcontrol
> shows this information.
> 
> > 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.
> 

Thanks for the comeback.

> I really don't know what's going on to cause your
> Opera to get stuck at 120, but I suggest closing
> Opera completely, then renaming ~/.opera6.ini to
> something else or deleting ~/.opera/opera*ini*, then
> starting Opera again. You'll find that resets all
> Opera settings to their defaults, and it should
> cause the URL's DPI report to be 96. If this resets
> the Opera UI to too tiny for you to manage to
> change font sizes via preferences I suggest a
> temporary lowering of screen resolution via
> Ctrl-Alt-- or the KRandRTray screen adjustment
> applet or using the KMag screen magnifier on the
> pref panel.
> 

mving the ~/.opera6.ini file did the trick. Now
getting 96 dpi and the browser looks just like the
others after resetting the default font size in the
Advance setting to 20 px.  It's really nice to be able
to read everything including the menus.  Thanks a lot.

> BTW, what is your screen resolution and display
> size? Which *buntu are you using? Which Opera are
> you using, and from what source?
> 

I use 
> I just installed the Opera .deb from Opera's
> download site on a fresh Feisty install running
> 1280x960. It reports 96 DPI, but only after several
> reloads. :-p KInfoCenter and Firefox also report 96
> DPI.

Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net