Re: Changing Font Size in Folder and Message List Panes
Ken Whiton wrote:
*-* On Mon, 01 Jul 2013, at 05:23:00 -0500,
*-* In Article 1zwdncqomeuxxuzmnz2dnuvz_hgdn...@mozilla.org,
*-* Richard Owlett wrote
*-* About Re: Changing Font Size in Folder and Message List Panes
hdt...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday, February 2, 2011 8:03:59 AM UTC-7, Cal Tinson wrote:
On 2/2/2011 8:41 AM eastern, JJG wrote:
I need to increase the font size a couple of notches in my Folder
and Message List Panes so these tired old eyes can see them more
easily.
How do I go about doing this? Using Tools/Options/Display doesn't
do it. That only seems to change the font in the message bodies.
Thank you
Here's Ken Whiton's previous post on this:
Yes, using appropriate entries in a userChrome.css file, as
Ron K. has already posted. The file doesn't exist by default, so
you'll have to create it if you haven't previously done so. Note
that the message list window is correctly identified as the Thread
Pane.
1. Leave TB open for the time being, so you can copy and
paste directly from this post into the userChrome.css
file.
2. Navigate to your Thunderbird profile. If you don't know
where that is, see:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird
3. Within the profile folder, open (or create if it doesn't
exist) the chrome folder.
4. Within the chrome folder, open (or create if it doesn't
exist) the userChrome.css file, using your preferred
text editor.
5. Add/enter the following text into the file:
/* Do not remove the @namespace line -- it's required for correct
functioning */
/* set default namespace to XUL */
@namespace
url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul;);
/* Set Font Size In Folder Pane */
#folderTree treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text {
font-size: 16pt !important; }
/* Set Font Size In Thread Pane */
#threadTree treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text {
font-size: 16pt !important; }
6. Close TBird.
7. Save the userChrome.css file, making sure that your
editor doesn't add an additional .txt (or any other)
extension to the name. After saving, leave the
editor/file open.
8. Open TBird, and open a mail folder or newsgroup. If the
font sizes are satisfactory, close the editor/file that
you left open at the end of step 7. If not, repeat
steps 5 through 8, trying different font sizes, until
you're satisfied with the results.
@kenwhiton and @CalTinson:
THANKS! Just noting that in TBird 17, this still works. Solved a
nuisance I'd given up hope on.
Does this also apply to mail/news in SeaMonkey [User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
SeaMonkey/2.17.1]?
I've never used SeaMonkey, so I don't know. Searching on line, I
find that SeaMonkey can use the userChrome.css (and userContent.css)
file(s), but I don't know if element identifiers would be the same.
Your best bet would be to ask in the mozilla.support.seamonkey
newsgroup. To give you a headstart on that I'm cross-posting this and
setting the follow-up to mozilla.support.seamonkey.
Ken Whiton
:~) or one can go into preferences appearance fonts and increase the
minimum and the monospace font sizes in conjunction with the
userChrome.css above...
SOLVED for sean...
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Re: Changing Font Size in Folder and Message List Panes
Ken Whiton wrote:
*-* On Mon, 01 Jul 2013, at 05:23:00 -0500,
*-* In Article 1zwdncqomeuxxuzmnz2dnuvz_hgdn...@mozilla.org,
*-* Richard Owlett wrote
*-* About Re: Changing Font Size in Folder and Message List Panes
hdt...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday, February 2, 2011 8:03:59 AM UTC-7, Cal Tinson wrote:
On 2/2/2011 8:41 AM eastern, JJG wrote:
I need to increase the font size a couple of notches in my Folder
and Message List Panes so these tired old eyes can see them more
easily.
How do I go about doing this? Using Tools/Options/Display doesn't
do it. That only seems to change the font in the message bodies.
Thank you
Here's Ken Whiton's previous post on this:
Yes, using appropriate entries in a userChrome.css file, as
Ron K. has already posted. The file doesn't exist by default, so
you'll have to create it if you haven't previously done so. Note
that the message list window is correctly identified as the Thread
Pane.
1. Leave TB open for the time being, so you can copy and
paste directly from this post into the userChrome.css
file.
2. Navigate to your Thunderbird profile. If you don't know
where that is, see:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird
3. Within the profile folder, open (or create if it doesn't
exist) the chrome folder.
4. Within the chrome folder, open (or create if it doesn't
exist) the userChrome.css file, using your preferred
text editor.
5. Add/enter the following text into the file:
/* Do not remove the @namespace line -- it's required for correct
functioning */
/* set default namespace to XUL */
@namespace
url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul;);
/* Set Font Size In Folder Pane */
#folderTree treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text {
font-size: 16pt !important; }
/* Set Font Size In Thread Pane */
#threadTree treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text {
font-size: 16pt !important; }
6. Close TBird.
7. Save the userChrome.css file, making sure that your
editor doesn't add an additional .txt (or any other)
extension to the name. After saving, leave the
editor/file open.
8. Open TBird, and open a mail folder or newsgroup. If the
font sizes are satisfactory, close the editor/file that
you left open at the end of step 7. If not, repeat
steps 5 through 8, trying different font sizes, until
you're satisfied with the results.
@kenwhiton and @CalTinson:
THANKS! Just noting that in TBird 17, this still works. Solved a
nuisance I'd given up hope on.
Does this also apply to mail/news in SeaMonkey [User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
SeaMonkey/2.17.1]?
I've never used SeaMonkey, so I don't know. Searching on line, I
find that SeaMonkey can use the userChrome.css (and userContent.css)
file(s), but I don't know if element identifiers would be the same.
Your best bet would be to ask in the mozilla.support.seamonkey
newsgroup. To give you a headstart on that I'm cross-posting this and
setting the follow-up to mozilla.support.seamonkey.
Ken Whiton
happy to report this works reliably w/in Seamonkey with no changes
whatsoever...
sean
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Re: Changing Font Size in Folder and Message List Panes
*-* On Mon, 01 Jul 2013, at 05:23:00 -0500,
*-* In Article 1zwdncqomeuxxuzmnz2dnuvz_hgdn...@mozilla.org,
*-* Richard Owlett wrote
*-* About Re: Changing Font Size in Folder and Message List Panes
hdt...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday, February 2, 2011 8:03:59 AM UTC-7, Cal Tinson wrote:
On 2/2/2011 8:41 AM eastern, JJG wrote:
I need to increase the font size a couple of notches in my Folder
and Message List Panes so these tired old eyes can see them more
easily.
How do I go about doing this? Using Tools/Options/Display doesn't
do it. That only seems to change the font in the message bodies.
Thank you
Here's Ken Whiton's previous post on this:
Yes, using appropriate entries in a userChrome.css file, as
Ron K. has already posted. The file doesn't exist by default, so
you'll have to create it if you haven't previously done so. Note
that the message list window is correctly identified as the Thread
Pane.
1. Leave TB open for the time being, so you can copy and
paste directly from this post into the userChrome.css
file.
2. Navigate to your Thunderbird profile. If you don't know
where that is, see:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird
3. Within the profile folder, open (or create if it doesn't
exist) the chrome folder.
4. Within the chrome folder, open (or create if it doesn't
exist) the userChrome.css file, using your preferred
text editor.
5. Add/enter the following text into the file:
/* Do not remove the @namespace line -- it's required for correct
functioning */
/* set default namespace to XUL */
@namespace
url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul;);
/* Set Font Size In Folder Pane */
#folderTree treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text {
font-size: 16pt !important; }
/* Set Font Size In Thread Pane */
#threadTree treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text {
font-size: 16pt !important; }
6. Close TBird.
7. Save the userChrome.css file, making sure that your
editor doesn't add an additional .txt (or any other)
extension to the name. After saving, leave the
editor/file open.
8. Open TBird, and open a mail folder or newsgroup. If the
font sizes are satisfactory, close the editor/file that
you left open at the end of step 7. If not, repeat
steps 5 through 8, trying different font sizes, until
you're satisfied with the results.
@kenwhiton and @CalTinson:
THANKS! Just noting that in TBird 17, this still works. Solved a
nuisance I'd given up hope on.
Does this also apply to mail/news in SeaMonkey [User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
SeaMonkey/2.17.1]?
I've never used SeaMonkey, so I don't know. Searching on line, I
find that SeaMonkey can use the userChrome.css (and userContent.css)
file(s), but I don't know if element identifiers would be the same.
Your best bet would be to ask in the mozilla.support.seamonkey
newsgroup. To give you a headstart on that I'm cross-posting this and
setting the follow-up to mozilla.support.seamonkey.
Ken Whiton
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Re: Changing Font Size in Folder and Message List Panes
Ken Whiton wrote:
*-* On Mon, 01 Jul 2013, at 05:23:00 -0500,
*-* In Article 1zwdncqomeuxxuzmnz2dnuvz_hgdn...@mozilla.org,
*-* Richard Owlett wrote
*-* About Re: Changing Font Size in Folder and Message List Panes
hdt...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday, February 2, 2011 8:03:59 AM UTC-7, Cal Tinson wrote:
On 2/2/2011 8:41 AM eastern, JJG wrote:
I need to increase the font size a couple of notches in my Folder
and Message List Panes so these tired old eyes can see them more
easily.
How do I go about doing this? Using Tools/Options/Display doesn't
do it. That only seems to change the font in the message bodies.
Thank you
Here's Ken Whiton's previous post on this:
Yes, using appropriate entries in a userChrome.css file, as
Ron K. has already posted. The file doesn't exist by default, so
you'll have to create it if you haven't previously done so. Note
that the message list window is correctly identified as the Thread
Pane.
1. Leave TB open for the time being, so you can copy and
paste directly from this post into the userChrome.css
file.
2. Navigate to your Thunderbird profile. If you don't know
where that is, see:
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_Thunderbird
3. Within the profile folder, open (or create if it doesn't
exist) the chrome folder.
4. Within the chrome folder, open (or create if it doesn't
exist) the userChrome.css file, using your preferred
text editor.
5. Add/enter the following text into the file:
/* Do not remove the @namespace line -- it's required for correct
functioning */
/* set default namespace to XUL */
@namespace
url(http://www.mozilla.org/keymaster/gatekeeper/there.is.only.xul;);
/* Set Font Size In Folder Pane */
#folderTree treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text {
font-size: 16pt !important; }
/* Set Font Size In Thread Pane */
#threadTree treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text {
font-size: 16pt !important; }
6. Close TBird.
7. Save the userChrome.css file, making sure that your
editor doesn't add an additional .txt (or any other)
extension to the name. After saving, leave the
editor/file open.
8. Open TBird, and open a mail folder or newsgroup. If the
font sizes are satisfactory, close the editor/file that
you left open at the end of step 7. If not, repeat
steps 5 through 8, trying different font sizes, until
you're satisfied with the results.
@kenwhiton and @CalTinson:
THANKS! Just noting that in TBird 17, this still works. Solved a
nuisance I'd given up hope on.
Does this also apply to mail/news in SeaMonkey [User agent:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0
SeaMonkey/2.17.1]?
I've never used SeaMonkey, so I don't know. Searching on line, I
find that SeaMonkey can use the userChrome.css (and userContent.css)
file(s), but I don't know if element identifiers would be the same.
Your best bet would be to ask in the mozilla.support.seamonkey
newsgroup. To give you a headstart on that I'm cross-posting this and
setting the follow-up to mozilla.support.seamonkey.
Ken Whiton
while it works on the fonts for the accounts name pane and the thread
pane... it would appear to need a third entry for the message view
pane... the difference between 10, 11 and 12pt fonts in that panel need
finer control...
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