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This
part of our
site has been made in Linux with software which costs nothing.
For many years we used another program to build the rest of our sites
but as technology has
progressed the program in question leaves something to be desired.
Relatively recently new computers have been produced with a
screen
resolution of 120 DPI.
Older machines used to be built using 96 DPI resolution.
Permit me to explain what the differences are to the ordinary user who
just wishes to read
what they perceive as a
reasonable web page :-
You switch on your machine-go to the Internet and search for the page
you require.
If that page has been produced at the lower resolution and your
settings are also low, you
will see the page as it should be and it may fill your screen. Then
again it could
have been
produced at a smaller screen size than your screen
and it will either center itself or sit to
the
left. In either case it will leave vacant space but you
should not have any Text Overlap.
Now due to the fact that the page has been made at a lower
resolution-96 DPI and you wish to view it on a new
machine at 120 DPI,
which simply means all things are
magnified by roughly 20%,
it may well cause the text to overlap from one
paragraph to another.
The opposite
is true when produced at 120 DPI, the result being
too much space between the paragraphs when viewed
at the lower resolution.
It must be said at this stage that there is a small program which helps
to counteract these effects but to date, in my opinion anyway,
it does not do the job to my
satisfaction
as whatever is done it leaves
the text extremely small and therefore difficult for some to read.
At about the same time as I was considering what to do about
this
problem my friend in the USA, Doug,who is mentioned elsewhere
on this site, suggested
I may consider
changing my operating system as well as my program for
producing web pages.
There, you have my explanation in a nutshell. Everything in Linux
is completely free and one of the easiest distributions to both load
and use is Ubuntu.
See other pages on how to obtain your copies
of Ubuntu or Click this LINK.
Firefox
and
Thunderbird
To the best of my knowledge and I stand to be corrected,most users of
Linux
use both Firefox web browser and Thunderbird as an email client.
On my travels around the internet recently I came across an Email
Button on a web page.
Despite clicking on it several times it did absolutely nothing.
So off to the internet to find a solution which took a while before I
found what I needed.
There are several ways to correct the problem some of which necessitate
the use of the terminal, but the easiest way is as follows:-
Open your web browser-in the address bar type in-about:config and
press Enter.
You will be presented with a page full of information with a filter bar
at the top.
Type into this bar:-network.protocol-handler.app.mailto
and press enter.
If your system is like mine was, there will be no entries.
Do a right click and a box will come up giving you a choice-Choose:-
new then
String. It will ask you to
name it-type in:-
The same as you did in the filter bar above.
It will then ask for the path-type in:- /usr/bin/thunderbird
Close the
browser and re-open it.
Next time you click on an Email link it will open thunderbird
Problem solved
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