font sizes in thunderbird's mailbox display?

[Matt Price]

Hi folks,

anyone know if there's any way to set the font size used by thunderbird
for its own display (by which I mean: fonts and sizes used e.g. in the
menubar, in the toolbars, and especially in the mailbox display -- I've
just installed Stacked View Extension -- which is great! -- but it
leaves me wanting a smaller font in the mbox view so I can see a little
more.

thanks,
matt

[Michael Marsh]

Post by Matt Price
anyone know if there's any way to set the font size used by thunderbird
for its own display (by which I mean: fonts and sizes used e.g. in the
menubar, in the toolbars, and especially in the mailbox display -- I've
just installed Stacked View Extension -- which is great! -- but it
leaves me wanting a smaller font in the mbox view so I can see a little
more.

Here's what I have in my userChrome.css, which does that and a bit
more. Note especially the frequent use of "!important". I'm not
entirely sure why settings in userChrome.css don't automatically get
top priority, but there you have it. For anything I haven't set, you
can always unpack the default theme and go poking around, which is
what I did. That is, unless they've gotten around to actually
documenting these features.

treechildren {
background-color: #F1F1F1 !important;
font-family: Nimbus Sans L !important;
font-size: 14px !important; }

treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(unread) {
font-size: 10pt !important;
font-family : Nimbus Sans L !important;
font-weight: normal !important;
color: #C50000 !important }

treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(read) {
font-size: 10pt ! important;
font-family : Nimbus Sans L !important; }

treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, newMessages-true),
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, hasUnreadMessages-true),
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, specialFolder-Inbox,
newMessages-true) {
font-weight: normal !important;
color: #C50000 !important
}

treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, isServer-true,
biffState-NewMail) {
font-weight: normal !important;
color: #C50000 !important
}

treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, isServer-true) {
font-weight: normal !important;
color: #00A500 !important
}

[Matt Price]

Post by Michael Marsh

Post by Matt Price
anyone know if there's any way to set the font size used by thunderbird
for its own display (by which I mean: fonts and sizes used e.g. in the
menubar, in the toolbars, and especially in the mailbox display -- I've
just installed Stacked View Extension -- which is great! -- but it
leaves me wanting a smaller font in the mbox view so I can see a little
more.

Here's what I have in my userChrome.css, which does that and a bit
more. Note especially the frequent use of "!important". I'm not
entirely sure why settings in userChrome.css don't automatically get
top priority, but there you have it. For anything I haven't set, you
can always unpack the default theme and go poking around, which is
what I did. That is, unless they've gotten around to actually
documenting these features.
treechildren {
background-color: #F1F1F1 !important;
font-family: Nimbus Sans L !important;
font-size: 14px !important; }
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(unread) {
font-size: 10pt !important;
font-family : Nimbus Sans L !important;
font-weight: normal !important;
color: #C50000 !important }
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(read) {
font-size: 10pt ! important;
font-family : Nimbus Sans L !important; }
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, newMessages-true),
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, hasUnreadMessages-true),
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, specialFolder-Inbox,
newMessages-true) {
font-weight: normal !important;
color: #C50000 !important
}
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, isServer-true,
biffState-NewMail) {
font-weight: normal !important;
color: #C50000 !important
}
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(folderNameCol, isServer-true) {
font-weight: normal !important;
color: #00A500 !important
}

thanks michael! got distracted and haven't tried this out thoroughly
(didn't work the first time and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong) --
but will archive it and keep it for future needs. thanks,
m
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[Michael Marsh]

Post by Matt Price
thanks michael! got distracted and haven't tried this out thoroughly
(didn't work the first time and I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong) --
but will archive it and keep it for future needs. thanks,
m

Make sure you put the changes in $TBIRD_PROFILE/chrome/userChrome.css
and that you restart Thunderbird after making changes. Ideally, you
should only make changes to userChrome.css when the client isn't
running.