On Sun, 2023-04-30 at 14:26 -0600, D. R. Evans wrote: > I have looked everywhere I can think of, and have been unable to find > an > answer -- among the ridiculous number of ways that fonts appear to be > controlled in Thunderbird -- that works for this issue :-( > > I recently changed to a larger monitor, and, after lots of twiddling, > have > more-or-less got most programs looking reasonably sensible. But > Thunderbird is > being recalcitrant. > > I am using TB 102.10.0, which is the current version in the debian > stable > repositories, on 64-bit debian stable. > > Here is the issue: > > When I open TB, I see three panes: one runs the full height of the TB > window, > and is on the left of the screen. It contains a list of the TB e-mail > folders. > The remaining space is divided into two panes, one vertically above > the other. > The second pane, the top one of these two, shows the subjects of > received > e-mails in whatever folder is selected in the first pane. The third > pane, > below the second one, is where the contents of e-mails are displayed. > > I have TB configured so as to display incoming e-mail as plain text. > They > display correctly, BUT the font used to display the contents in the > third pane > is too large on the new monitor. How *exactly* do I control the size > of the > font used to display the contents of received plain text e-mails? > > That is: > > -------------------------------------- > > | | > > | | > > | | > > |---------------------------------| > > | | <- how to control font size > > | | <- in this pane?? > -------------------------------------- > > Doc >
Hi, D.R., If I understand your question correctly, try this: Click on the pane that shows the message contents, to select it. Then Ctrl + and Ctrl - let's you resize the contents of the pane, bigger or smaller, respectively. Works on my Thunderbird, 102.10.0. HTH!
