hard time seeing and reading the computer screen
Hello,
Last month I wrote about an issue I have. I have had a stroke, and sometimes reading the computer screen is difficult for me. I was wondering if there was a way to change the font and/or color of the list of emails so I can differentiate read emails from unread emails. I can’t always tell the difference between the bold type and the normal, and the green unread dots look just like the gray read dots to me. I wrote an email to support asking for help, and I got a response, but I cannot figure out what the note is telling me. I am not a computer programmer. I called my support service and they are as baffled as I am. I have been very happy with Thunderbird, but I need a little help. Below is the email response I received from my first post. Thank you, George Hutton
david Jan 1, 2023, 4:45:53 AM
In config editor set toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true to allow use of the chrome folder. In profile, add folder named chrome (lower-case) In folder, add file named userChrome.css (case-sensitive) In that simple text file, add the following: I set the colors a bit wild, with blue font and yellow background, so please change to your preference. Same goes for size. after saving, thunderbird must be closed and restarted to see changes. Config editor is at settings>general and scroll to bottom. If you want special colors and know the HTML number, replace the blue and yellow with numbers preceded with # (e.g.l, #0000ff is blue, #FF0000 is red. More colors available by web search for html color chart THE FOLLOWING CODE is for userChrome.css:
/* Make unread messages blue text and italic */
treechildren::-moz-tree-cell-text(unread) {
color: blue !important;
font-style: italic !important;
font-size: 16px;
font-weight: bold !important; background-color: yellow !important;
}
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Hello George
Sorry about your problem. It seems that you got the correct response from this forum, however your very problem is making it (obviously) difficult to solve it this way. I wonder if you transferred to your support service the link to the original response, or the same text you pasted here: because the way it's expressed it's unfortunately rather garbled and difficult to understand - If I did not know what it is, I'd be a bit baffled too. I'm sure that the original reply was clearer.
So maybe it was the problem with your support service: they did not understand the information your forwarded them, because it was not the original information. If they did access the original post and were unable to process it, my guess is that they should find a more qualified person to help them solve your problem. About answers on this forum, I'm sorry again to say that it's difficult enough to try to help people not being used to computers to do things a bit complex, but it's squared when the person has some functional problems like you have currently. It's far easier when one can do the stuff to help directly on the computer, that is, from a person that can help you immediately. If it's not possible, one can try to do it through the forum but it will not be easy at all.