notes-thunderbird.md

   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
  14
  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
  19 settings; I looked for "scale", "zoom" and "size".
  20
  21 ### Solution
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  23 In config editor, find property:
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  25     layout.css.devPixelsPerPx
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  27 then change its value from 2.0 to 1.0.
  28
  29 #### Source
  30
  31 Make a fresh profile and examine `prefs.js` diff until something looks promising.
  32
  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!