On 9 Feb 2005, at 23:43, John Baltutis wrote: > On 02/09/05, Eddie Hargreaves <meged at earthlink.net> wrote: >> There is no built-in way to change the menu font or size. >> On 2/9/05 11:45 AM, John Newhoff <johnl at portagebay.com> wrote: >> >>> I think the default menu font in OS X is Lucida Grande 12 or 13 >>> point. Has anyone run across a way to change this? IIRC, you can do >>> it in terminal with these commands: > > defaults write -g NSSystemFont deiredFont > defaults write -g NSSystemFontSize deiredFontSize > > where desiredFont is whatever you want (or leave it as is and > experiment > with just changing the size). You may have to restart to make the > change. > > Open Terminal app and type in man defaults to get the particulars. If you prefer the GUI, you can also you TinkerTool: it is extremely easy. Silvo Silvo Conticello Albook 17" 1.5GHz/1.5Gb RAM/80Gb HD/OS10.3.7 iMac 1GHz/500Mb Ram/80Gb HD/OS10.3.7/17" display E-mail: silvoc at tiscali.it Cambridge UK