The Pull of Ubuntu

[Kurt A. Bartnik]

On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 00:13 -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote:

> 3. I spend most of my workday in Mozilla Thunderbird, but I can't stand 
> the blocky bold serif typeface used to denote unread messages. No matter 
> what I change (switching from Serif to Arial; using 96dpi fonts) the 
> same blocky bold typeface is used in the Linux Mozilla Thunderbird. If I 
> have access to the MS fonts and Thunderbird on Ubuntu is using the same 
> font settings as Thunderbird in Windows, why does the application look 
> so drastically different? Is there a solution?

I have not tried this myself with Thunderbird, but you could retrieve
msttcorefonts package with Synaptic. Once installed, it downloads the
basic MS font set (Arial, Times New Roman, Courier New,...)

Once they are installed, you could configure Thunderbird to use those
fonts instead of the (admittedly ugly) defaults.

Let me reiterate that I have not tried this myself, but its pretty
benign if it doesn't help.

Kurt
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