Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!reader5.news.weretis.net!news.solani.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richmond Newsgroups: alt.comp.software.seamonkey Subject: Re: The bold text on new messages (linux) Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2026 10:27:26 +0000 Organization: Frantic Message-ID: <82ecnsebg1.fsf@example.com> References: <82wm1qncpq.fsf@example.com> <10k6a2a$3dm5r$1@dont-email.me> <10k6sne$3jm3s$1@dont-email.me> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: solani.org; logging-data="76230"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@news.solani.org" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Cancel-Lock: sha1:S3JFsu78CKBRqiHs5bHiP15JXIY= sha1:KJvL01hI8687E6f4ydUKTCxpBwo= X-User-ID: eJwFwYEBwCAIA7CXRFrGzhEq/59gQg+L/hAMcDgZwaaWlHsvDNzgyFZZ/y6ee5k1yjtnyvEAFPERlg== Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.software.seamonkey:8409 Barryedwin1 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.