Re: More fun with Seamonkey
On Thu, 20 May 2021, Bob Bernstein wrote:
> On Thu, 20 May 2021, Siard wrote:
>
> > [Settings]
> > gtk-font-name = Liberation Sans 12
>
> BINGO!
>
> Remedied almost everything. Fixed-width fonts in the body of
> text-based emails were still too small until I found
> Preferences->Appearance->Fonts could set a value for 'minimum
> font size,' which got majorly incremented by moi.
My suggestion would be to set the message text to a fixed-width font.
Preferences > Mail & Newsgroups > Message Display > set Font to Fixed Width.
Preferences > Appearance > Fonts: set font size next to Monospace.
And keep the minimum font size at a lower value.
The browser can still display smaller text then.
> [Optional extra credit paragraph -- will not be on the quiz} As is
> doubtless evident to all assembled faithful, I am way past trying keep up
> any pretense that I am a wicked cool clue-enabled code-jockey who falls
> asleep with C snippets running through his head. I don't write device
> drivers before breakfast, but I know who does.
Well, I'm just an ordinary user myself.
> All this just to lend context as I confess I have been trying to solve this
> configuration problem liteally for years. That problem is the principal
> reason I could never stay with seamonkey or thunderbird. I mean, I'm
> talkin' _years_ of being stymied by this.
When using Gnome, you can find this in the Gnome Control Center.
Some other desktop environments seem to have their own settings for it.
For example, in Mate, I found it here:
System > Control Center > Look and Feel > Appearance > tab 'Fonts'.
It overrides the settings in ~/.config/gtk-3.0.
I have the Openbox WM myself. I did not find any setting for the GTK fonts
there, so I had to resort to the arcane configuration files mentioned above.
BTW, there is a similar setting for the font in gtk2 applications.
Put a line like this in ~/.gtkrc-2.0:
gtk-font-name = "Liberation Sans 12"
> Okay, life is short and you busy folks don't have time for any more of my
> blather.
Interesting and humorous 'blather', nevertheless. :-)
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