Re: Can't Set Default Window Size or Font

Thanks for the suggestion, Jim, but it doesn't work for me. I tried
both copying/renaming the new file and cutting and pasting its contents
to the existing normal.awt, but no joy. Maybe this is a Linux-Mac
difference, even though Mac OS X is really Unix in disguise.

You inspired me, however, to have a look at the normal.awt file in a
text editor. It has many parameters, mostly incomprehensible, but the
font and font size are specified there, so I tried changing them
manually. That worked, not surprisingly, but I can't figure out which
parameter defines the window size. So the good news is I have my
preferred default font and font size now. The bad news is the window is
still too small for useful legibility.

It seems to me that AbiWord's inability to change these very basic
defaults for new documents is a serious flaw, although I can find no
bug report on it. And, of course, having to make changes in normal.awt
with a text editor is ridiculous -- just as it's ridiculous to have to
change the window size every time the application opens. I guess this
is a minor annoyance to most users (since nobody seems to care except
you and me), but it definitely sours the AbiWord experience for me.

Mike

On Dec 29, 2005, at 12:04 AM, Jim Hettmer wrote:

> Michael Zimmerman wrote:
>> I want the width of the default window to be about twice what AbiWord
>> thinks it should be, so a 10-point font will be legible at page-width
>> zoom. ...............
>
> <snip>
> I found (Linux) a root-owned normal.awt. So I copied it to
> normal.awt-was and opened abi and arranged all my settings and saved
> it, and copied the result to the root-owned normal.awt. Surely it
> shouldn't have worked, but amazingly it did, and I start with exactly
> what I wanted.
> <snip>

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Received on Sat Dec 31 23:11:16 2005