Newbie Questions

[CaptainKirk]

I am running Ubuntu 9.04. Gnome is nice, but a bit sluggish for me. A friend turned me on to LXDE and it looks great! A few issues/questions:

1. I picked some option to show a menu when right clicking on the desktop and now I can't undo that. I want to adjust the background image of the desktop actually but I can't find where to do that.

2. The buttons or icons in the task bar representing my windows don't seem to resize if there are a lot--they just disappear off the right side. Can that be adjusted?

3. I think this is a bug in Thunderbird, but in LXDE the fonts in Thunderbird are very small. I mean the fonts for the system menus etc. They are smaller than any other app, but in Gnome they are not--they are normal. I did read on the Ubu forums that in 2007 at least there was a bug like this reported on the Thunderbird app in Ubu's repos and someone said to get Thunderbird from mozilla.com. I just don't want to lose all my settings etc. Any advice here?

Thanks!

[maces]

Welcome

I am running Ubuntu 9.04. Gnome is nice, but a bit sluggish for me. A friend turned me on to LXDE and it looks great! A few issues/questions:

1. I picked some option to show a menu when right clicking on the desktop and now I can't undo that. I want to adjust the background image of the desktop actually but I can't find where to do that.

Open pcmanfm go to edit>preferences>desktop>Show menus provided by WM when desktop is clicked (uncheck this box).

2. The buttons or icons in the task bar representing my windows don't seem to resize if there are a lot--they just disappear off the right side. Can that be adjusted?

Seems to be a bug, pls fill in a bug report here.

maces

[CaptainKirk]

Bug filed: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=d ... tid=894869

Thank you for your reply.

[jerrybeck]

I found an answer to 3rd problem

Browse to the path that resembles this:
/home/some_user/.mozilla-thunderbird/some_profile.default/chrome

Create a text file called userChrome.css and add something resembling the following to it:

/* Global UI font */
* { font-size: 10pt !important;
font-family: Sans !important;
}

You can change "Sans" to something else if you like, and of course you can change "10pt" to "14pt" or whatever.

If you don't have folder chrome or userChrome.css (or for that matter both) just made it

hope this helps

[CaptainKirk]

Beautiful! You are a genius. Thank you very much.

The actual path, BTW, is:

~/.thunderbird/xxxxxxxx.default/

See here: http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/edit

Now that you got me started, I'm all set.