I have DSL installed on a Fujitsu Stylistic 1200. How to reset firefox size?

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[sunshine]

I have it running well except Firefox comes up too big on the small screen on this tablet.

It is running at vga=786 using xfdev.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[CNK]

If you do "firefox --help" and look under "Mozilla options", there are options "-height" and "-width" to specify window size.

So you just have to use the command "firefox -width <pixels> -height <pixels>" to start it with the size specified in pixels. The height should be a bit less than the screen resolution so that the window doesn't cover the task bar at the bottom.

You can put the full command in a menu item by editing "/home/dsl/.jwmrc", or make a script file with the command and create a link to it on the desktop.

[TaroTaoYin]

Can you help me? I don't understand everything. Can you tell me about that?

[CNK]

Well to try starting Firefox full size, open a terminal window and enter the "firefox -width <pixels> -height <pixels>" command with the <pixels> parts near the resolution you have set with your display.

When you work out the window size you want, type "sudo nano .jwmrc" to edit the file that controls the DSL menu. Find the line for Firefox, and after "/usr/local/bin/firefox", add the -width and -height commands with your desired pixel counts. Then save the file by pressing Ctrl-O and close the window (or press Ctrl-X to return to the command line).

If you want an icon on the desktop, make a script by entering the command you used in the terminal ("firefox -width <pixels> -height <pixels>") into a text editor and saving it as something like "firefox.sh" in the "/home/dsl" directory. Open a terminal window and type "sudo chmod a+rwx firefox.sh", then right click on any desktop icon and select "Create > New Program Icon" from the menu. Enter the path "/home/dsl/firefox.sh" in the window that opens and click create.

Now the icon should appear on the desktop and start Firefox at the size desired. You can delete the old icon (right click on it and select "delete"), and set the same name and picture for the new one by right clicking on it and selecting "Options" from the menu.