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  Thunderbird font broken Markus Grunwald <markus@the-grue.de> - 2018-01-12 20:30 +0100
    Re: Thunderbird font broken Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2018-01-12 21:40 +0100
      Re: Thunderbird font broken Ric Moore <wayward4now@gmail.com> - 2018-01-13 16:00 +0100
    Re: Thunderbird font broken Siard <shiems146@kpnplanet.nl> - 2018-01-13 18:50 +0100

#191002 — Thunderbird font broken

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Hello,

Thunderbird seems to handle fontsizes different than all the other
programs I'm using. I had to install the extension "Theme Font & Size
Changer for Thunderbird" (62.0) to fix that broken behaviour, then all
was fine.

Until yesterday. I started Thunderbird and the UI-Fonts were   H U G E
again :( The Icon for the Theme Font & Size Changer is gone. I tried to
reinstall the  extension, no success. I restored ~/.mozilla and
~/.icedove (where .thunderbird links to) from backup, still no success.

Can you help me to get a non-screaming thunderbird again?
-- 
Markus Grunwald
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#191004

Markus Grunwald composed on 2018-01-12 20:24 (UTC+0100):

> Thunderbird seems to handle fontsizes different than all the other
> programs I'm using. I had to install the extension "Theme Font & Size
> Changer for Thunderbird" (62.0) to fix that broken behaviour, then all
> was fine.

> Until yesterday. I started Thunderbird and the UI-Fonts were   H U G E
> again :( The Icon for the Theme Font & Size Changer is gone. I tried to
> reinstall the  extension, no success. I restored ~/.mozilla and
> ~/.icedove (where .thunderbird links to) from backup, still no success.

> Can you help me to get a non-screaming thunderbird again?

Maybe. This came up here less than a week ago, likely same problem. It's a
common Mozilla/GTK/DE-WM-Xorg problem, not a problem specific to Debian.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2018/01/msg00327.html
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get, get wisdom." Proverbs 4:7 (New Living Translation)

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Felix Miata  ***  http://fm.no-ip.com/

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#191033

On 01/12/2018 03:32 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Markus Grunwald composed on 2018-01-12 20:24 (UTC+0100):
> 
>> Thunderbird seems to handle fontsizes different than all the other
>> programs I'm using. I had to install the extension "Theme Font & Size
>> Changer for Thunderbird" (62.0) to fix that broken behaviour, then all
>> was fine.

If you have a mousewheel, use CTRL and mousewheel to increase/decrease 
font size. Works a charm on both Thunderbird and Firefox. Enjoy! Ric


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"There are two Great Sins in the world...
..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity.
Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad.
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#191046

Markus Grunwald wrote:
> Thunderbird seems to handle fontsizes different than all the other
> programs I'm using.

In Testing, if I start Thunderbird from an x-terminal, this is what
I see:

$ thunderbird
No protocol specified
Unable to init server: Could not connect: Connection refused
Error: cannot open display: :0

There seems to be something wrong with TB in Testing at the moment.

TB in Stable works fine, however.  As far as I can see, the font size
of the UI is determined by the settings for GTK3.
If you do not use Gnome, then put the desired font and font size into
~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini (create the file if it does not exist
yet), like this:

[Settings]
gtk-font-name = Liberation Sans 11

(BTW, to use this font, install fonts-liberation.)

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