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I had a similar problem a couple of years ago on my Thinkpad. I downgraded my kernel to 5.14.0. Just a thought.

@aika & @MXRobo - thanks for your comments. I have been putting of upgrading to MX23 but you have given me another reason to stop procrastinating

aika wrote: Sat Aug 03, 2024 7:55 pm Your Thunderbird version was probably too old, I read MX-19 and Buster too late.

Even though I downloaded and installed it via Synaptic?

I have found a solution which works for me but leaves some questions unanswered for conventional installation methods (synaptic & MX Package Installer).
Here is my process:-

Uninstalled Thunderbird using Synaptic including configuration files.
Made sure I had no profiles left on my hard drive from ...

Thanks for the many responses - I have tried all the suggestions without success.
To make matters worse I set up a gmail account I have in about 10 minutes most of which time was spent getting a security code to allow Thunderbird to access my account. It worked as a pop account but I had the choice ...

Eadwine Rose wrote: Thu Aug 01, 2024 2:24 am What do you get on manual config?


Pretty sure you have read this already https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mi ... erbird-202

I think so but will have another crack at this tomorrow. Maybe I missed the cooky setting.

Thunderbird has failed after many years due to the new MS Outlook requirements. (apologies for using a MS email account)
I have searched the internet and tried many "fixes" over the past few days without success.
I have uninstalled and reinstalled Thunderbird numerous times, deleted profiles etc ...

MXRobo wrote: Sun Jul 28, 2024 1:54 pm

Thank you very much for this very useful information and link - both bookmarked for future reference.

Found the solution. MX Tweaks give the option to set the scale for each screen separately:-

Before climbing into the weeds... did you try a timeshift restore ?


Well I was able to do a Timeshift restore but it didn’t fix the problem. I changed the scaling back to x1 and now have small fonts on each screen.

One strange thing has happened since that change. On one occasion only I ...