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I have problems with my toolbar font size in Thunderbird. It's smaller than all other applications. This annoyans ockure after a reinstall of Debian Sid with only XFCE 4.4.

Before then I installed Xfce 4.4 after that I had KDE installed the same problems arised then I first started Xfce4 but after switching GUI font sizes up and down a couple of times (with the Xfce4 settings dialog) both Firefox and Thunderbird looked like the others.

To the story I can tell that I use the dpi at 115 and set that option in GDM. And I had set Thunderbird to use the systemsettings in it's dpi setting dialog.

Do you have a solution or at least some suggestions???

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Submitted by Arky on Sat, 2007-10-27 23:50.

One workaround would be controlling font sizes of Thunderbird
using ~/.Xdefaults or ~/.Xresources.

HTH

--arky
Currently Playing With Sid

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Another possible solution

Submitted by broken on Sun, 2007-11-04 18:29.

I haven't messed with T-bird, but my experience with Mozilla based apps indicates you can create a file in the subdirectories to force the interface to show your choice. I hope you can follow this.

In your home directory, there should be a '.thunderbird' folder. Inside is a profile-name directory, and inside that a random numbered directory. Inside that is your configuration files. There should be a folder there named 'chrome' or something similar. Inside, you'll see some sample config files, usually.

Create one called 'userChrome.css'. Here's an example of what you might put in it:

* { font-family: arial !important;
font-size: 12pt !important; }

If you prefer a different font, use the font-face name. Same with the font-size. If you don't like the results, you'll have to close T-bird, edit the file, and try again. Let me know if this helps.

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