A few days ago I had the chance to solve to curious issues she was having with thunderbird. I had to google a little for both solutions:
Very small fonts: Almost everything in thunderbird had a very, very small font size: menus, message list, etc. I tried changing DPI resolution in KDE, setting global font preferences por KDE and GTK applications, with no avail. Finally the solution was to tweak a property within thunderbird:
(the default value was unset, or -1, I can't remember). So simple! I don't know what is the meaning of the property, but solved the issue and now all fonts are just like in any other application.
layout.css.cpi = 0
(the default value was unset, or -1, I can't remember). So simple! I don't know what is the meaning of the property, but solved the issue and now all fonts are just like in any other application.
Clicking links does not open a browser: When reading an email with a URL, clicking on them did just nothing. I browsed every possible option in the Preferences windows, but there was nothing that fixed it. The solution, again, was hidden in the advanced preferences. I had to set a few variables:
network.protocol-handler.app.http = /usr/bin/firefox(that can be done for ftp as well -- and any other protocol if needed).
network.protocol-handler.app.https = /usr/bin/firefox
Note: To edit the "advanced" preferences, go to Edit > Preferences > Advanced > Config Editor. Be aware that you can misconfigure it very easily from there!
Both are things far from what a regular end user could change. I wonder why the default install left things that way....
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