Since upgrading to V68.0 I'm finding that when comosinmg an email the
text
is shown with almost unreadable tiny font.

Although I found that 'Ctrl + =' would increase the font size the effect
does
not persist for the next email compose.

Anyone know how to set the Compose font style, please?

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On 9/15/19 10:56 AM, Maurice wrote:

Since upgrading to V68.0 I'm finding that when comosinmg an email the
text
is shown with almost unreadable tiny font.

Although I found that 'Ctrl + =' would increase the font size the effect
does
not persist for the next email compose.

Anyone know how to set the Compose font style, please?

Edit/Preferences/Compose lets you chose font style and relative size.

After you make the changes shut down Thunderbird and start it again.

bliss

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On Sun, 15 Sep 2019 11:31:22 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:

Edit/Preferences/Compose lets you chose font style and relative size.

Only for HTML, though. (That is set to Trebuchet 'Large')
(Tried Lucida font: Same)

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On 16/9/19 3:56 am, Maurice wrote:

Since upgrading to V68.0 I'm finding that when comosinmg an email the
text
is shown with almost unreadable tiny font.

It's late here. I haven't tested
does Edit > Preferences > Display > Formatting change anything?

Regards


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Am 15.09.19 um 19:56 schrieb Maurice:

Since upgrading to V68.0 I'm finding that when comosinmg an email the
text
is shown with almost unreadable tiny font.

Although I found that 'Ctrl + =' would increase the font size the effect
does
not persist for the next email compose.

Anyone know how to set the Compose font style, please?

I had the same problem and found no way to set the size for plain text
in Thunderbird 68.
What helped me fix this was an add on called Auto Zoomer.
This keeps zoom level set with [ctrl +] which would normaly get lost at thunderbird restart.
hth

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On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 22:26:25 +1000, faeychild wrote:

does Edit > Preferences > Display > Formatting change anything?

Yes, but not the Composer text font, only when reading existing emails.

Regards,

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On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:56:22 +0200, Werner Brinkmann wrote:

What helped me fix this was an add on called Auto Zoomer.
This keeps zoom level set with [ctrl +] which would normaly get lost at thunderbird restart.

Have now installed that - and it worked after I had changed the default setting of 3 to 5 in about:config's "extensions.autozoom.composerzoom".

Vielen dank, Werner!
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On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 16:15:59 +0000, Maurice wrote:

On Mon, 16 Sep 2019 22:26:25 +1000, faeychild wrote:

does Edit > Preferences > Display > Formatting change anything?

Yes, but not the Composer text font, only when reading existing emails.

Regards,

On V60, select to write a new email, Then, in that window, select edit> preferences> composition and select the font size you want. It stays that size. V68 should be about the same.

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On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 05:05:35 +0000, Wes Newell wrote:

V68 should be about the same.

But isn't!

Regards

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On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 10:34:48 +0000, Maurice wrote:

On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 05:05:35 +0000, Wes Newell wrote:

V68 should be about the same.

But isn't!

Regards

Then file a bug report sp they can fix it.

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Am 17.09.19 um 07:05 schrieb Wes Newell:

On V60, select to write a new email, Then, in that window, select edit> preferences> composition and select the font size you want. It stays that size. V68 should be about the same.

Are you shure there is a way to set the font size for _plain text_ in tb60?
I had a look at my old windows box which still runs tb38 and all there
is (like in tb68) is a setting for font type and size for _HTML fonts_
not for plain text.

Only setting for plain text I find in Edit/Preferences/View is for
quoted plain text in either version of the program and none in Edit/Preferences/Compose.

Filing a bug report does not seem appropriate here. Maybe a feature request?

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On 9/17/19 8:27 AM, Werner Brinkmann wrote:

Am 17.09.19 um 07:05 schrieb Wes Newell:

On V60, select to write a new email, Then, in that window, select edit>
preferences> composition and select the font size you want. It stays that
size. V68 should be about the same.

Are you shure there is a way to set the font size for _plain text_ in tb60?
I had a look at my old windows box which still runs tb38 and all there
is (like in tb68) is a setting for font type and size for _HTML fonts_
not for plain text.

Only setting for plain text I find in Edit/Preferences/View is for
quoted plain text in either version of the program and none in Edit/Preferences/Compose.

Filing a bug report does not seem appropriate here. Maybe a feature
request?

Ask Mozilla(?) how to set the font first and then if their answer is not functional, report the bug.
But have you added ThunderHTMLedit 2.1.2 by Jorg K to your installation?

bliss

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On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:27:29 -0400, Werner Brinkmann <denada@gmx.es> wrote:

Am 17.09.19 um 07:05 schrieb Wes Newell:

On V60, select to write a new email, Then, in that window, select edit>
preferences> composition and select the font size you want. It stays that
size. V68 should be about the same.

Are you shure there is a way to set the font size for _plain text_ in tb60?
I had a look at my old windows box which still runs tb38 and all there
is (like in tb68) is a setting for font type and size for _HTML fonts_
not for plain text.
Only setting for plain text I find in Edit/Preferences/View is for
quoted plain text in either version of the program and none in Edit/Preferences/Compose.
Filing a bug report does not seem appropriate here. Maybe a feature request?

I haven't found the font size setting for plain text composition, but
I suspect it's one of the values that can be changed by dconf-editor or
by gsettings.

I've tried various settings that look promising, but no luck finding the
path or schema and which key to edit so far.

Thunderbird expect everyone to use html messages, which is not appropriate
for most newsgroups, and which I avoid as much as possible for email and mailing lists. While it allows selecting plain text as the default, the
font options are well hidden.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

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On Tue, 17 Sep 2019 13:26:14 +0000, Wes Newell wrote:

file a bug report sp they can fix it.

I would expect the response would be:

(1) Install Auto Zoomer.

(2) Change the default setting of 3 to e.g 5 in about:config's
"extensions.autozoom.composerzoom".

That works for me. By using 'Ctrl+ =' to select preferred size,
AutoZoomer
will ensure it stays that way in Composer.

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On 16/9/19 3:56 am, Maurice wrote:

Since upgrading to V68.0 I'm finding that when comosinmg an email the
text
is shown with almost unreadable tiny font.

Although I found that 'Ctrl + =' would increase the font size the effect
does
not persist for the next email compose.

Anyone know how to set the Compose font style, please?

This may be related to the message that a Profile from an earlier
version won't work in 68.

At present, I have upgraded TB in Cauldron to 68, then reinstalled 7.1
for a number of minor problems. TB in 7.1 was 68, but now it is back to
an earlier version that doesn't like the new profile.

Even with Schily Tools unable to compile because there is no working C++
in 7.1 (dependency hell reigns there,) I am not ready to join Pinnerite
on Mint just yet. OI will stick to Cauldron. When the problems are in Official and Cauldron gets more updates, it makes me wonder.

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On 10/8/19 6:41 AM, Doug Laidlaw wrote:

On 16/9/19 3:56 am, Maurice wrote:

Since upgrading to V68.0 I'm finding that when comosinmg an email the
text
is shown with almost unreadable tiny font.

Although I found that 'Ctrl + =' would increase the font size the effect
does
not persist for the next email compose.

Anyone know how to set the Compose font style, please?

This may be related to the message that a Profile from an earlier
version won't work in 68.

At present, I have upgraded TB in Cauldron to 68, then reinstalled 7.1
for a number of minor problems.  TB in 7.1 was 68, but now it is back to
an earlier version that doesn't like the new profile.

Interesting. My fully-updated M7 (equivalent to 7.1) production install
that uses Thunderbird is using the 68.1.1 provided by Mageia, and I am
having no problems. But then, this install hasn't been re-installed
since sometime in January. It's been stable enough that only updates
have been needed.

Maurice's problem was probably caused by Thunderbird's use of GTK+3
fonts, and the theme his Plasma install is using. He can change it in
System Settings/Application Style/GNOME/GTK ApplicationStyle, but those changes will be universal, affecting all GTK+ 3 applications, including Firefox and MCC. I didn't bring it up because I didn't think he wanted
to change anything but Thunderbird.

Even with Schily Tools unable to compile because there is no working C++
in 7.1 (dependency hell reigns there,) I am not ready to join Pinnerite
on Mint just yet.  OI will stick to Cauldron.  When the problems are in Official and Cauldron gets more updates, it makes me wonder.

Current Mageia 7 efforts are concentrating on repairing problems that
have cropped up preventing some upgrades from Mageia 6 to Mageia 7.
These must be fixed before the Mageia 6 EOL, originally scheduled for
the beginning of October, can be made Official.

TJ

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On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 21:41:58 +1100, Doug Laidlaw wrote:

At present, I have upgraded TB in Cauldron to 68, then reinstalled 7.1
for a number of minor problems. TB in 7.1 was 68, but now it is back to
an earlier version that doesn't like the new profile.

Are you sure. Guessing not a Cauldron problem.

Both Thunderbird and Firefox have the profile problem even on version
bump of same base release. On my Mga7, I have
$ thunderbird --version
Thunderbird 68.1.1
$ firefox --version
Mozilla Firefox 69.0.2

and I was forced onto new profiles where I had to re-enter all changes
when the new versions came out. Finished debugging my last firefox
user.js change and from this point I'll modify my install_firefox
script to just delete user firefox directory, create new defaults dir,
and insert my user.js link to re-install my changes.

Next project is to automate thunderbird install to do the same.

Even with Schily Tools unable to compile because there is no working C++
in 7.1

Bullshit.

(dependency hell reigns there,)

Please do not tell my system about that. You had me worried, so I ran
my install_cdrtools script and it had no problems completing. Trailing
snippet follows:

make[3]: Entering directory '/root/tmp/cdrtools-3.02/man/man4'
==> LOCALIZING "OBJ/x86_64-linux-cc/man/makerules.5"
==> INSTALLING "/opt/schily/share/man/man5/makerules.5"
make[3]: Leaving directory '/root/tmp/cdrtools-3.02/man/man4'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/tmp/cdrtools-3.02/man/man4'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/tmp/cdrtools-3.02/man'
# Completed /local/bin/install_cdrtools

Which gets me
$ dir /usr/local/bin | grep schily
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 8 08:39 btcflash -> /opt/schily/bin/btcflash lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 8 08:39 cdda2mp3 -> /opt/schily/bin/cdda2mp3 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 8 08:39 cdda2ogg -> /opt/schily/bin/cdda2ogg lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 8 08:39 cdda2wav -> /opt/schily/bin/cdda2wav lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 8 08:39 cdrecord -> /opt/schily/bin/cdrecord lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 8 08:39 devdump -> /opt/schily/bin/devdump lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 8 08:39 isodebug -> /opt/schily/bin/isodebug lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 8 08:39 isodump -> /opt/schily/bin/isodump lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 8 08:39 isoinfo -> /opt/schily/bin/isoinfo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 8 08:39 isovfy -> /opt/schily/bin/isovfy lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 8 08:39 mkhybrid -> /opt/schily/bin/mkhybrid lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 8 08:39 mkisofs -> /opt/schily/bin/mkisofs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 8 08:39 readcd -> /opt/schily/bin/readcd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 8 08:39 scgcheck -> /opt/schily/bin/scgcheck lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Oct 8 08:39 scgskeleton -> /opt/schily/bin/scgskeleton

I am not ready to join Pinnerite on Mint just yet.

Looking at Pinnerite's last post, he was having problems installing
Knoppix on two of his systems.

OI will stick to Cauldron. When the problems are in
Official and Cauldron gets more updates, it makes me wonder.

99.9% of the time, Cauldron is always getting updates.

If you can not stand the heat, get out of Cauldron.

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On 10/8/19 3:41 AM, Doug Laidlaw wrote:

On 16/9/19 3:56 am, Maurice wrote:

Since upgrading to V68.0 I'm finding that when comosinmg an email the
text
is shown with almost unreadable tiny font.

Although I found that 'Ctrl + =' would increase the font size the effect
does
not persist for the next email compose.

Anyone know how to set the Compose font style, please?

This may be related to the message that a Profile from an earlier
version won't work in 68.

At present, I have upgraded TB in Cauldron to 68, then reinstalled 7.1
for a number of minor problems.  TB in 7.1 was 68, but now it is back to
an earlier version that doesn't like the new profile.

Even with Schily Tools unable to compile because there is no working C++
in 7.1 (dependency hell reigns there,) I am not ready to join Pinnerite
on Mint just yet.  OI will stick to Cauldron.  When the problems are in Official and Cauldron gets more updates, it makes me wonder.

It takes a bit of Trial and Error,
but Edit/Preferences/Composition to set the font and
the relative size. I have mine set to Tahoma and Large.
Tb should really let you set a defined type size but it
is what it is. Thunderbird version 68.1.1.

bliss

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On 10/8/19 10:01 AM, Bit Twister wrote:

On Tue, 8 Oct 2019 21:41:58 +1100, Doug Laidlaw wrote:

Even with Schily Tools unable to compile because there is no working C++
in 7.1

Bullshit.

(dependency hell reigns there,)

Please do not tell my system about that. You had me worried, so I ran
my install_cdrtools script and it had no problems completing. Trailing snippet follows:

make[3]: Entering directory '/root/tmp/cdrtools-3.02/man/man4'
==> LOCALIZING "OBJ/x86_64-linux-cc/man/makerules.5"
==> INSTALLING "/opt/schily/share/man/man5/makerules.5"
make[3]: Leaving directory '/root/tmp/cdrtools-3.02/man/man4'
make[2]: Leaving directory '/root/tmp/cdrtools-3.02/man/man4'
make[1]: Leaving directory '/root/tmp/cdrtools-3.02/man'
# Completed /local/bin/install_cdrtools

Which gets me
$ dir /usr/local/bin | grep schily
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 8 08:39 btcflash ->

/opt/schily/bin/btcflash

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 8 08:39 cdda2mp3 ->

/opt/schily/bin/cdda2mp3

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 8 08:39 cdda2ogg ->

/opt/schily/bin/cdda2ogg

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 8 08:39 cdda2wav ->

/opt/schily/bin/cdda2wav

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 8 08:39 cdrecord ->

/opt/schily/bin/cdrecord

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 8 08:39 devdump -> /opt/schily/bin/devdump lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 8 08:39 isodebug ->

/opt/schily/bin/isodebug

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 8 08:39 isodump -> /opt/schily/bin/isodump lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 8 08:39 isoinfo -> /opt/schily/bin/isoinfo lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 8 08:39 isovfy -> /opt/schily/bin/isovfy lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 8 08:39 mkhybrid ->

/opt/schily/bin/mkhybrid

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 23 Oct 8 08:39 mkisofs -> /opt/schily/bin/mkisofs lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 Oct 8 08:39 readcd -> /opt/schily/bin/readcd lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 24 Oct 8 08:39 scgcheck ->

/opt/schily/bin/scgcheck

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 27 Oct 8 08:39 scgskeleton ->

/opt/schily/bin/scgskeleton


I don't bother with the Schilly tools anymore, because I no longer do
anything with optical media, except for testing potential Mageia isos.
My main production desktop doesn't even have an optical drive installed,
and I pulled the optical drive out of my main laptop to install an ssd.
I did put that drive into a usb enclosure, but have only used it once in
about six months.

I discovered years ago that while commercially-produced optical media
holds up over time, the media I burned here does not, Schilly tools or
no. Flash drives and/or external hard drives have proven to be much
faster and more reliable for me.

YMMV, of course.

TJ


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On 10/8/19 9:18 AM, TJ wrote:

Interesting. My fully-updated M7 (equivalent to 7.1) production install
that uses Thunderbird is using the 68.1.1 provided by Mageia, and I am having no problems. But then, this install hasn't been re-installed
since sometime in January. It's been stable enough that only updates
have been needed.

Oops. I lied, though I didn't mean to. I plead a senior moment...

While it's true that I have been using M7 as my production install, it
has not been running without a re-install since January. I did a major hardware upgrade to my desktop in March, going from a Core 2 Duo
motherboard to one with a Sandy Bridge i5. At the same time, I added an
ssd as my boot drive.

All this made a fresh install of M7 necessary, if it were to work
properly. I used whichever M7 iso that was the latest at the time. There
has been no need to make yet another re-install since then. Mageia 7 has
been rock-solid stable for me.

TJ

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