Re: Changing fonts in Seamonkey Mail panels
Marc Shapiro wrote:
> I have been unable to find any play on the mozilla.org site to ask this
> question, so I am hoping that someone here can help me.
> I am trying to change the fonts used in the various panels in Seamonkey
> Mail. I am using the same profile as I use for the Mozilla Suite, but
> the displayed fonts are not the same (or the display of them is handled
> differently). The fonts used by the Mozilla Suite are much more
> readable than those used for Seamonkey. Changes to
> 'Edit/Preferences/Appearance/Fonts are only supposed to affect web
> pages, not the folder and message lists of Seamonkey, itself.
If both your SM and your Moz are from debs, or both are from mozilla.org
downloads, when there should be no difference in the UI fonts. You may
want to take a look at resolving any DPI issues before trying to adjust
the fonts themselves: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/dpi.html
Moz and SM and Firefox UI fonts are managed with CSS, something not
particularly easy for a CSS novice to get a handle on. Users can change
them using the file chrome/userChrome.css in your profile directory. The
one you'll want to start with is probably treechildren, in the form used
on: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/customizing.html#usercss , probably
something like "treechildren {font-size: 9pt !important; font-family:
'dejavu sans' !important;}".
The Dom Inspector in your SM Tools menu can help you find the rules that
you want to manipulate, but Domi isn't easy to learn either. The trick
there is to start thus: 1-open the correct mailnews window in Domi;
2-open the tree in the left pane; 3-Set the Object in the right pane to
CSS Style Rules; 4-find the applicable DOM Node in the left pane's
document tree; 5-examine the applicable rule(s) in the right pane;
6-edit your userChrome.css file with an applicable setting or override.
The way CSS is inherited, it can be very difficult to find exactly what
rule causes the computed value that you want to unset or override.
If you are using compatible builds of both apps and yet see this
difference that shouldn't be there, you might want to try visiting
irc://moznet/seamonkey or irc://moznet/mozillazine with Chatzilla and
asking for help finding out why the difference exists, or ask in the
mozillazine.org forums.
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