[SOLVED] Lightning users: read before patching Seamonkey, Thunderbird

cwizardone · 02-11-2014, 04:18 PM

Here you go:

gargamel · 02-11-2014, 04:47 PM

Here's mine.

gargamel

ljb643 · 02-11-2014, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

Installed 2.9b1 and it appears blurred, as in fuzzy, and hard on the eyes. Anyone else notice this?
BTW, eye drops didn't help.

Looks OK for me too. But I've seen other cases, and it might be useful for you to try looking at the characters with a screen magnifier. I use "wmagnify" (included with windowmaker, although I don't use windowmaker). Press 8 to get 8x magnification and move the cursor over "good" and "fuzzy" characters. Look for differences in anti-aliasing. Lightning might be interacting poorly with your font anti-aliasing settings.

cwizardone · 02-13-2014, 01:37 PM

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Originally Posted by ljb643

Looks OK for me too. But I've seen other cases, and it might be useful for you to try looking at the characters with a screen magnifier. I use "wmagnify" (included with windowmaker, although I don't use windowmaker). Press 8 to get 8x magnification and move the cursor over "good" and "fuzzy" characters. Look for differences in anti-aliasing. Lightning might be interacting poorly with your font anti-aliasing settings.

Thanks for the suggestion, but it seems a bit more complicated than that.

With the mail tab displayed and the today panel on the right, with the mini-month displayed at the top of the panel, everything is crystal clear.
But, switch to the calendar tab, which moves the mini-month to the left side, and it all becomes blurred as shown in the image attached to my message a couple of posts back.

Stuferus · 02-13-2014, 06:38 PM

how good i dont use seamonky and no esr releases

gargamel · 02-15-2014, 06:51 AM

Not sure, if it makes a difference, but I am using the Lightbird add-on, which allows to use the calendard without having to open a Seamonkey Mail window first.

Anyhow, the effect you describe is weird, indeed. How could switching to another window impact the quality of font rendering or anti-aliasing (or both)?

Could you try to set up a new user account in your system and run Seamonkey with that new user? Just to make sure that the problem isn't caused by something left from a previous installation or version of Seamonkey or Lightning.

gargamel

cwizardone · 02-15-2014, 08:44 PM

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Originally Posted by gargamel

Not sure, if it makes a difference, but I am using the Lightbird add-on, which allows to use the calendard without having to open a Seamonkey Mail window first.

Anyhow, the effect you describe is weird, indeed. How could switching to another window impact the quality of font rendering or anti-aliasing (or both)?

Could you try to set up a new user account in your system and run Seamonkey with that new user? Just to make sure that the problem isn't caused by something left from a previous installation or version of Seamonkey or Lightning.

gargamel

That did it. I setup a new user along with SeaMonkey with Lightning and it looked as it should. So I went to my user directory, deleted ~.mozilla/seamonkey and did a fresh install.
Thanks for the suggestion.

gargamel · 02-15-2014, 09:45 PM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

That did it. I setup a new user along with SeaMonkey with Lightning and it looked as it should. So I went to my user directory, deleted ~.mozilla/seamonkey and did a fresh install.
Thanks for the suggestion.

Any time, glad that you could solve it.
I guess, the fresh install would not have been required, deleting ~/.mozilla/seamonkey should have done the trick. Hopefully you haven't lost your bookmarks etc.

gargamel

cwizardone · 02-15-2014, 10:57 PM

Spoke too soon. Right back where I started, yet, in the new user account everything looks as it should.

Periodically I copy the address book and bookmarks to another directory just in case something like this comes up.

gargamel · 02-16-2014, 06:11 AM

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

Spoke too soon. Right back where I started, yet, in the new user account everything looks as it should.

Oh, that's not so good. Unfortunately I don't know, where else Seamonkey stores data, if not in ~/.mozilla/seamonkey. Are you using add-ons for both your user accounts? Could an add-on only installed for the older account cause the issue?
Maybe there's some caching problem. If you use Xfce, have you tried deleting ~/.cache after logging out, then re-logging in?

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Originally Posted by cwizardone

Periodically I copy the address book and bookmarks to another directory just in case something like this comes up.

I should be smart enough and immediately start doing the same...

gargamel

cwizardone · 02-16-2014, 11:46 AM

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Originally Posted by gargamel

Oh, that's not so good. Unfortunately I don't know, where else Seamonkey stores data, if not in ~/.mozilla/seamonkey. Are you using add-ons for both your user accounts? Could an add-on only installed for the older account cause the issue?....

It was one of the themes.
I went through disabling the extensions/add-ons one by one and it wasn't any of them, so I went to "appearance" and changed the theme back to the default and the screen cleared right up. Unfortunately, it was my favorite (to date) "custom" theme that has Tux in the upper right-hand corner. I switched to the theme entitled, "Slackware 2" which duplicates the background at slackware.com, and that one works as it should.
Thanks, again for your help.

gargamel · 02-16-2014, 12:52 PM

Again, any time!

So you solved it, but it's still a bit strange that the font rendering changes from one version of Seamonkey to the next for a specific theme, but not for everything else... Software!

gargamel