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1Moving profile
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4 http://kb.mozillazine.org/Moving_your_profile_folder_-_Thunderbird
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6Starting from CLI allows more options, see:
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8 thunderbird --help
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10After copying the profile from another computer, start with the profile manager
11and 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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17I copied a profile from 4k resolution computer to a 2k one, now icons and text
18are huge. How to scale it back down? Don't see anything relevant-looking in the
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19settings; I looked for "scale", "zoom" and "size".
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21### Solution
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23In config editor, find property:
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25 layout.css.devPixelsPerPx
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27then change its value from 2.0 to 1.0,
28or to -1.0 (which means match current X11 settings).
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30#### Source
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32Make a fresh profile and examine `prefs.js` diff until something looks promising.
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34 $ thunderbird # Looks bad. Close it.
35 $ mv ~/.thunderbird ~/.thunderbird.bak
36 $ thunderbird # Close it. Now we have a fresh profile.
37 $ vimdiff ~/.thunderbird/newxxx.default/prefs.js ~/.thunderbird.bak/oldxxx.default/prefs.js
38 # Examine every difference until something looks promising. Value 2.0
39 # looks like a zoom value and it is refering to some pixel-to-pixel
40 # ratio - looks promising!
41 $ rm -rf ~/.thunderbird
42 $ mv ~/.thunderbird.bak ~/.thunderbird
43 $ thunderbird
44 # Open config editor, look for devPixelsPerPx and change to 1.0.
45 # Looks good!
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