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Re: The bold text on new messages (linux)

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Barryedwin1 <mrbarryedw.20@aussiebroadband.com.au> writes:

> Mark Bourne wrote on 14/1/26 4:31 am:
>> Richmond wrote:
>>> I had Seamonkey on Debian with the Mate desktop. I installed
>>> OpenSUSE with Gnome. But now Seamonkey does not highlight new
>>> messages in the message list in bold, nor in the folder pane on the
>>> left. What controls this sort of thing? (other than re-installing
>>> Debian with Mate which is becoming increasingly tempting).
>>>
>>> I renamed my custom userChrome.css but that only made fonts smaller,
>>> it did not restore bold.  >> That happened with an update to Linux
>>> Mint (based on Ubuntu) around a year >> ago.  It seems an update to
>>> the "Ubuntu Regular" font used as the system >> default font meant
>>> the bold highlight didn't work.  >> There were suggestions in the
>>> alt.os.linux.mint newsgroup to downgrade the >> package proving the
>>> font and pin it at the older version.  >> I just changed the default
>>> font on the system to Liberation Sans Regular >> instead.  At the
>>> time I didn't think it looked quite so nice generally, >> though not
>>> all that bad and now I can't remember how it was different from >>
>>> the original font anyway.  In Linux Mint with Cinnamon desktop the
>>> fonts are >> set under System Settings > Font Selection (in the
>>> "Appearance" section).   >> It's probably different in OpenSUSE /
>>> Gnome, but perhaps that gives an idea >> of where to look.
>> 
> Thanks for that Mark. Much appreciated. Hope it works for the OP.  I
> install the 'gnome-tweaks' package so fonts are in there, not in
> 'Settings', but selecting system 'Liberation-regular' and
> 'Liberation-mono' DID recover SM (and some other apps) bold PLUS
> colour highlight - even within Ubuntu's Gnome/Wayland.  (Also changing
> the 'Appearance/Styles' from 'Yaru' desktop back to 'Adwaita (default)
> recovered the more user-friendly recognisable system icons and
> colours. Nice catch. Much appreciated. Barry.

Brilliant! thanks to both of you, it worked. I changed to Liberation
Serif Regular. It was set to Adwaita before, but Adwaita does have a
bold version, so I don't know why it didn't work.

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The bold text on new messages (linux) Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-01-09 13:21 +0000
  Re: The bold text on new messages (linux) Barryedwin1 <mrbarryedw.20@aussiebroadband.com.au> - 2026-01-12 15:33 +0800
    Re: The bold text on new messages (linux)Postscript Barryedwin1 <mrbarryedw.20@aussiebroadband.com.au> - 2026-01-12 15:49 +0800
  Re: The bold text on new messages (linux) Mark Bourne <nntp.mbourne@spamgourmet.com> - 2026-01-13 20:31 +0000
    Re: The bold text on new messages (linux) Barryedwin1 <mrbarryedw.20@aussiebroadband.com.au> - 2026-01-14 09:49 +0800
      Re: The bold text on new messages (linux) Richmond <dnomhcir@gmx.com> - 2026-01-14 10:27 +0000

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