[sylpheed:33348] Re: Setting font for display

[John Jason Jordan]

On Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:47:38 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:

> I am moving from Ubuntu Jaunty to Debian testing. I am using a brand
> new disk for Debian, and I have installed and mounted the old disk so I
> can just copy configuration files to the new Debian disk.
> 
> Migrating Sylpheed has gone well. I installed it from Synaptic (version
> 2.7.1), then copied the ~/.sylpheed-2.0 file and the ~/Mail folder from
> the Jaunty disk to the Debian disk. When I launched Sylpheed all my
> mail was there, all my accounts work, and things are as they were under
> Jaunty - except for one detail. I can't get the fonts to appear as they
> were.
> 
> In Configuration > Common Preferences > Display > General I set the
> font for the message display to FreeSans 7 points. The message appears
> in this font, but the headers are some other very large font. I can't
> find a way to change the font for the headers in the message display
> window as well as the text of the message.
> 
> Can someone point me in the right direction?

Never mind. After restarting Sylpheed the entire message window is now
in the font I selected. Dunno why it changed the message text
immediately, but the headers didn't change until after Sylpheed was
restarted.