SM2.0 from Win2K to Win7
I'll be getting a new computer either today or tomorrow. While I am familiar with the profile transfer process, which I've done many times before, I've never done it on anything more exotic than going from Win2K to WinXP. So my question is, is there any specific process to use to transfer my 2.0 profile from Win2K to Win7 or is the standard cut and paste approach sufficient? Any information on this matter will be much appreciated. S. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM2.0 from Win2K to Win7
S. Beaulieu wrote: I'll be getting a new computer either today or tomorrow. While I am familiar with the profile transfer process, which I've done many times before, I've never done it on anything more exotic than going from Win2K to WinXP. So my question is, is there any specific process to use to transfer my 2.0 profile from Win2K to Win7 or is the standard cut and paste approach sufficient? Any information on this matter will be much appreciated. S. The standard cut and paste manual move will work, as long as you find the proper profile location, which is different on Win7 then on either 2K or XP: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_SeaMonkey Lee ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM2.0 from Win2K to Win7
Leonidas Jones wrote: The standard cut and paste manual move will work, as long as you find the proper profile location, which is different on Win7 then on either 2K or XP: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_SeaMonkey Thank you! Just to be sure I was clear, my "regular C&P approach" is to copy whatever is below the basic profile folder, files and all, and crush it over whatever is below the basic profile folder of the second computer. So that will still work? Colour me impressed, as I would have expected to be told that the infrastructure was completely different. yay for simplicity! How about copying my whole default profile into the default profile location on the new computer *before* I installed SM on it? Would that also work? I've never tried that approach before. S. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM2.0 from Win2K to Win7
S. Beaulieu wrote: Leonidas Jones wrote: The standard cut and paste manual move will work, as long as you find the proper profile location, which is different on Win7 then on either 2K or XP: http://kb.mozillazine.org/Profile_folder_-_SeaMonkey Thank you! Just to be sure I was clear, my "regular C&P approach" is to copy whatever is below the basic profile folder, files and all, and crush it over whatever is below the basic profile folder of the second computer. So that will still work? Colour me impressed, as I would have expected to be told that the infrastructure was completely different. yay for simplicity! How about copying my whole default profile into the default profile location on the new computer *before* I installed SM on it? Would that also work? I've never tried that approach before. S. As long as you are moving a SeaMonkey 2.0 profile from Win 2K to Win 7, there should be no problem with your procedure. For what its worth, here is how I go about it, which is slightly different then you may see elsewhere. Copy the profile folder from the old machine. Install SeaMonkey 2.0 on the new machine. Use the Profile Manager to create its default profile. Do not open SeaMonkey yet, just close Profile Manager once the new profile is created. With SeaMonkey closed, navigate to your new profile folder, the location of which can be found at the link I provided earlier. The new profile will be in a folder called .default. Your old profile will be .(profilename). Paste the old profile folder from the old machine in along side the newly created profile folder. The x's in the above examples are actually a random string of numbers and letters. (profilename) would the name of your profile from your old computer, which may very well be "default". For the sake of this example, say the newly created profile is a1b2c3d4.default, and the profile from the old machine is 4d3c2b1a.default. Make a note of the newly created profile name. Rename this newly created profile to a1b2c3d4.defaultold. Then rename your old machine profile, 4d3c2b1a.default to a1b2c3d4.default. In short, rename the profile you are moving to the same name as the one you just created. Close out, then start SeaMonkey. You should see your moved profile with all the data you had on Win2K. Lee ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM2.0 from Win2K to Win7
S. Beaulieu wrote: I'll be getting a new computer either today or tomorrow. While I am familiar with the profile transfer process, which I've done many times before, I've never done it on anything more exotic than going from Win2K to WinXP. So my question is, is there any specific process to use to transfer my 2.0 profile from Win2K to Win7 or is the standard cut and paste approach sufficient? Any information on this matter will be much appreciated. S. Why not just use Mozbackup, you make a backup from one PC and then do a restore on the second. Link: http://mozbackup.jasnapaka.com/ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM2.0 from Win2K to Win7
Leonidas Jones wrote: As long as you are moving a SeaMonkey 2.0 profile from Win 2K to Win 7, there should be no problem with your procedure. You were right! I'm writing from the new computer and the transfer was 100% painless and easy! I just hard a hard time figuring out how to not have to use the Search function... (Well, Win2K looks like crap and is definitely going to need some getting used to, but I guess that's besides the point!) Thank you very much. S. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM2.0 from Win2K to Win7
S. Beaulieu wrote: Leonidas Jones wrote: As long as you are moving a SeaMonkey 2.0 profile from Win 2K to Win 7, there should be no problem with your procedure. You were right! I'm writing from the new computer and the transfer was 100% painless and easy! I just hard a hard time figuring out how to not have to use the Search function... (Well, Win2K looks like crap and is definitely going to need some getting used to, but I guess that's besides the point!) Thank you very much. S. It is a pretty easy approach. I amso glad to here its working for you. Let us know if we can be of further help. Lee ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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Leonidas Jones wrote: It is a pretty easy approach. I amso glad to here its working for you. Let us know if we can be of further help. Well, there is only one thing: my fonts in SM (and not elsewhere, it semms, but I haven't played much with anything but SM) now look all kind of fuzzy/blurry, not as sharp as they were on my old computer. I've tried playing with my screen's and Windows' settings, thinking at first that it had to do with drivers and such, but it really seems to be restricted to SM. Even the font itself looks slightly of different than before (which shouldn't be the case, as I didn't change anything on that front). Do you have any ideas what could be causing this? Would it have to do with my Appearance settings? S. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM2.0 from Win2K to Win7
S. Beaulieu wrote: Leonidas Jones wrote: It is a pretty easy approach. I amso glad to here its working for you. Let us know if we can be of further help. Well, there is only one thing: my fonts in SM (and not elsewhere, it semms, but I haven't played much with anything but SM) now look all kind of fuzzy/blurry, not as sharp as they were on my old computer. I've tried playing with my screen's and Windows' settings, thinking at first that it had to do with drivers and such, but it really seems to be restricted to SM. Even the font itself looks slightly of different than before (which shouldn't be the case, as I didn't change anything on that front). Do you have any ideas what could be causing this? Would it have to do with my Appearance settings? S. Well, I'm a Mac user. I have Windows boxes, but nothing running Win7 at this point. Perhaps a Win & user will jump in. Lee ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM2.0 from Win2K to Win7
Leonidas Jones schrieb: S. Beaulieu wrote: Well, there is only one thing: my fonts in SM (and not elsewhere, it semms, but I haven't played much with anything but SM) now look all kind of fuzzy/blurry, not as sharp as they were on my old computer. I've tried playing with my screen's and Windows' settings, thinking at first that it had to do with drivers and such, but it really seems to be restricted to SM. Even the font itself looks slightly of different than before (which shouldn't be the case, as I didn't change anything on that front). Do you have any ideas what could be causing this? Would it have to do with my Appearance settings? S. Well, I'm a Mac user. I have Windows boxes, but nothing running Win7 at this point. Perhaps a Win & user will jump in. This is exactly the same experience I had when firing up SM on Win7. It's the cleartype functionality of Win7. You can try to turn it off in the OS (but many fonts will look pretty ugly then) or choose another font for things like the message display in the Seamonkey preferences, e.g. compare Courier and Courier New for the fixed width font and you'll see a huuuge difference when reading mail/newsgroup messages. regards Martin -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - http://www.gerstbach.at/2004/ascii ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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Martin Freitag wrote: or choose another font for things like the message display in the Seamonkey preferences, e.g. compare Courier and Courier New for the fixed width font and you'll see a huuuge difference when reading mail/newsgroup messages. regards Hum. I can't seem to find how to do that. There is no font option in the Message display pane and the only place I find some seems to be for changing the default font throughout the software... S. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM2.0 from Win2K to Win7
S. Beaulieu schrieb: Martin Freitag wrote: or choose another font for things like the message display in the Seamonkey preferences, e.g. compare Courier and Courier New for the fixed width font and you'll see a huuuge difference when reading mail/newsgroup messages. regards Hum. I can't seem to find how to do that. There is no font option in the Message display pane and the only place I find some seems to be for changing the default font throughout the software... Edit => Preferences => Appearance => Fonts? (fixed width at the bottom) Martin -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - http://www.gerstbach.at/2004/ascii ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SM2.0 from Win2K to Win7
S. Beaulieu schrieb: Martin Freitag wrote: or choose another font for things like the message display in the Seamonkey preferences, e.g. compare Courier and Courier New for the fixed width font and you'll see a huuuge difference when reading mail/newsgroup messages. regards Hum. I can't seem to find how to do that. There is no font option in the Message display pane and the only place I find some seems to be for changing the default font throughout the software... Edit => Preferences => Appearance => Fonts? (fixed width at the bottom) Martin -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - http://www.gerstbach.at/2004/ascii ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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Martin Freitag a écrit : Edit => Preferences => Appearance => Fonts? (fixed width at the bottom) I tried that, but it didn't change anything. I think I'm just unkowingly skipping a step... S. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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S. Beaulieu schrieb: Martin Freitag a écrit : Edit => Preferences => Appearance => Fonts? (fixed width at the bottom) I tried that, but it didn't change anything. I think I'm just unkowingly skipping a step... Select the proper encoding there at the top (above the fonts). Common encodings are Western and Unicode. If you change the fixed width font for both, it should have an effect. regards Martin -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - http://www.gerstbach.at/2004/ascii ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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Martin Freitag a écrit : Select the proper encoding there at the top (above the fonts). Common encodings are Western and Unicode. If you change the fixed width font for both, it should have an effect. It changes the fonts in the body of emails/newsgroup messages, but nowhere else. S. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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S. Beaulieu schrieb: Martin Freitag a écrit : Select the proper encoding there at the top (above the fonts). Common encodings are Western and Unicode. If you change the fixed width font for both, it should have an effect. It changes the fonts in the body of emails/newsgroup messages, but nowhere else. Correct, this was one example ;-) The others are not fixed width fonts. Feel free to change as many font-types as you need. (menubar might be taken from windows setting though) For me the messages were the worst, the rest is pretty fine. regards Martin -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - http://www.gerstbach.at/2004/ascii ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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Martin Freitag a écrit : Correct, this was one example ;-) Ah! Gotcha! But I guess I'm getting used to it as it doesn't bother me as much as it did yesterday. It's only when text is bolded (for example, new messages) that it's really obvious, with a kind of reddish halo. Altogether, depending on the fonts, it looks like text hasn't been aliased/is oversharpened or is oversmoothed. It's really strange. Thanks for your help! S. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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On 12/03/2009 10:18 AM, Martin Freitag wrote: > S. Beaulieu schrieb: >> Martin Freitag a écrit : >>> >>> Select the proper encoding there at the top (above the fonts). >>> Common encodings are Western and Unicode. If you change the fixed width >>> font for both, it should have an effect. >> >> >> It changes the fonts in the body of emails/newsgroup messages, but >> nowhere else. > Correct, this was one example ;-) > The others are not fixed width fonts. Feel free to change as many > font-types as you need. (menubar might be taken from windows setting though) > For me the messages were the worst, the rest is pretty fine. > regards > > Martin I've been able to change the fonts for message/news body, browser, menus (system), but cannot seem to find a way to change the font size on the the message/news headers (subject/from/date/etc). I seem to recall that there was a fix for this using prefs.js or something in chrome, but can't seem to find it in my files. Anyone recall how to do this - the headers are so small on my Windows systems (Win2KPro and WinXP - default theme) that I can barely read them. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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NoOp: >I've been able to change the fonts for message/news body, browser, menus >(system), but cannot seem to find a way to change the font size on the >the message/news headers (subject/from/date/etc). I seem to recall that >there was a fix for this using prefs.js or something in chrome, but >can't seem to find it in my files. Anyone recall how to do this - the >headers are so small on my Windows systems (Win2KPro and WinXP - default >theme) that I can barely read them. I am happy with this :) - ueserChrome.css - * { font-size: 11pt !important; font-family: arial !important; } --- Hartmut ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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S. Beaulieu schrieb: Martin Freitag a écrit : Correct, this was one example ;-) Ah! Gotcha! But I guess I'm getting used to it as it doesn't bother me as much as it did yesterday. It's only when text is bolded (for example, new messages) that it's really obvious, with a kind of reddish halo. um, please start the cleartype adjustment in Windows to get rid of "ghosts". (after making sure your monitor is fine and proper calibrated ;-)) Altogether, depending on the fonts, it looks like text hasn't been aliased/is oversharpened or is oversmoothed. It's really strange. Yeah, I agree. Thanks for your help! You're welcome. Martin -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - http://www.gerstbach.at/2004/ascii ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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Martin Freitag a écrit : um, please start the cleartype adjustment in Windows to get rid of "ghosts". (after making sure your monitor is fine and proper calibrated ;-)) It's the first thing I did when I encountered that problem, even before I sent my first message here! ^_~ S. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
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On 12/03/2009 11:47 AM, Hartmut Figge wrote: > NoOp: > >>I've been able to change the fonts for message/news body, browser, menus >>(system), but cannot seem to find a way to change the font size on the >>the message/news headers (subject/from/date/etc). I seem to recall that >>there was a fix for this using prefs.js or something in chrome, but >>can't seem to find it in my files. Anyone recall how to do this - the >>headers are so small on my Windows systems (Win2KPro and WinXP - default >>theme) that I can barely read them. > > I am happy with this :) > > - ueserChrome.css - > * { > font-size: 11pt !important; > font-family: arial !important; > } > --- > > Hartmut That's the one! Thanks Harmut. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey