Re: Fonts cannot be enlarged

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

Hi Helmut:

On 05/01/2022 06:16:56 AM Sun, Helmut Jarausch via balsa-list wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using Balsa 2.6.3 on a recent Ubuntu system.
> I cannot enlarge ( View/Zoom ).

"Zoom" is effective only for HTML message parts; you cannot use it to change font size for text/plain parts 
or for headers.

> I have edited $HOME/.balsa/config and I've set
>
> PrintHeaderFont
> PrintBodyFont
> PrintFooterFont
> MessageFont
> SubjectFont
>
> to larger values, but this doesn't seem to have any effect.

I would expect that to have the same effect as the way Jack suggested, using the preferences dialog. It works 
for me (I'm composing this with a horrifically large monospace font!).

> On startup I get the following error messages
> (balsa:4425): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:08:50.571: Theme parsing error: <data>:7:13: Not using units is deprecated. 
> Assuming 'px'.
> (balsa:4425): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:08:50.572: Theme parsing error: <data>:7:13: Junk at end of value for 
> font-size
> (balsa:4425): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:08:50.572: Theme parsing error: <data>:7:13: Not using units is deprecated. 
> Assuming 'px'.
> (balsa:4425): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:08:50.572: Theme parsing error: <data>:7:13: Junk at end of value for 
> font-size
> (balsa:4425): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:08:50.572: Theme parsing error: <data>:7:13: Not using units is deprecated. 
> Assuming 'px'.
> (balsa:4425): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:08:50.572: Theme parsing error: <data>:7:13: Junk at end of value for 
> font-size
> (balsa:4425): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:08:50.572: Theme parsing error: <data>:7:13: Not using units is deprecated. 
> Assuming 'px'.
> (balsa:4425): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:08:50.572: Theme parsing error: <data>:7:13: Junk at end of value for 
> font-size
> (balsa:4425): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:08:50.609: Theme parsing error: <data>:7:13: Not using units is deprecated. 
> Assuming 'px'.
> (balsa:4425): Gtk-WARNING **: 12:08:50.609: Theme parsing error: <data>:7:13: Junk at end of value for 
> font-size

I have never seen those, but I haven't tried hand-editing ~/.balsa/config.

> (balsa:4425): GLib-GIO-WARNING **: 12:08:55.476: unable to send notifications through 
> org.freedesktop.Notifications: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.ServiceUnknown: The name 
> org.freedesktop.Notifications was not provided by any .service files

That may be a configuration issue. Searching for "org.freedesktop.Notifications on Ubuntu" shows results that suggest 
that it may just require installing some "*.service" file.

> Many thanks for some hints,
> Helmut

Hope this helps, at least a little!

Peter