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1 | Moving profile |
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4 | http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_folder_-_Thunderbird | |
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6 | Starting from CLI allows more options, see: | |
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8 | thunderbird --help | |
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10 | After copying the profile from another computer, start with the profile manager | |
11 | and select the desired profile, after which normal starts will use it: | |
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13 | thunderbird --ProfileManager | |
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15 | ### Problem | |
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17 | I copied a profile from 4k resolution computer to a 2k one, now icons and text | |
18 | are huge. How to scale it back down? Don't see anything relevant-looking in the | |
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19 | settings; I looked for "scale", "zoom" and "size". |
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21 | ### Solution | |
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23 | In config editor, find property: | |
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25 | layout.css.devPixelsPerPx | |
26 | ||
27 | then change its value from 2.0 to 1.0. | |
28 | ||
29 | #### Source | |
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31 | Make a fresh profile and examine `prefs.js` diff until something looks promising. | |
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33 | $ thunderbird # Looks bad. Close it. | |
34 | $ mv ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.bak | |
35 | $ thunderbird # Close it. Now we have a fresh profile. | |
36 | $ vimdiff ~/.thunderbird/newxxx.default/prefs.js ~/.thunderbird.bak/oldxxx.default/prefs.js | |
37 | # Examine every difference until something looks promising. Value 2.0 | |
38 | # looks like a zoom value and it is refering to some pixel-to-pixel | |
39 | # ratio - looks promising! | |
40 | $ rm -rf ~/.thunderbird | |
41 | $ mv ~/.thunderbird.bak ~/.thunderbird | |
42 | $ thunderbird | |
43 | # Open config editor, look for devPixelsPerPx and change to 1.0. | |
44 | # Looks good! |