Retain Order of Calendars across re-starts in Thunderbird 91?
I would like my default calendar to be the first in the list of calendars so that when I am creating a new event (I usually use "convert to event from email" option). However as I have multiple calendars, the first in the list is I think the one I may have created first and it resets itself to as such after each restart, even though I re-order the list to my liking. Setting my preferred calendar as "default" calendar also does not help because this setting really does not seem to do anything, the default calendar is the one that is last left selected in the calendar view (and it is usually the first calendar in the list if I do not actively change it to another calendar).
I am happy to even edit the setting in configuration file - if there is such a setting for this list. If so, please advise. - Thanks!
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There is no option to set a calendar as 'Default'. As you have found, the calendar that is selected in the left pane of the Calendar tab is the one that new events are added to, and the calendar that is selected at closing is the one that remains selected when TB restarts.
There is a way to have all events added to a single calendar:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1322833#answer-1386226
What worked for me: (1) Select Calendar Tab; (2) From list of calendars on left, reorder the list by click-hold and move; I moved the one I wanted to top of list, closed TB, reopened TB and the "default" calendar for New Event is the one at the top of the list. Using TB 91.7.0 on W10 Pro 21H2.
PNSheldon said
What worked for me: (1) Select Calendar Tab; (2) From list of calendars on left, reorder the list by click-hold and move; I moved the one I wanted to top of list, closed TB, reopened TB and the "default" calendar for New Event is the one at the top of the list. Using TB 91.7.0 on W10 Pro 21H2.
I tried just now the same, using TB 91.7 on Ubuntu 21.10 but upon restart, TB reverts to the very same list of calendars ignoring all the re-ordering done by me prior to restart. That is, I do not see any change in this behavior from the previous builds of TB.
I still see the same behaviour as in my earlier reply: new events are added to the calendar that is currently selected, or was selected when the calendar tab was last opened.
How disappointing! My change seems to be permanent. I powered down overnight and New Event this morning has my preferred calendar selected. As I said "What worked for me". You are using a different OS than me.
TB can be very frustrating. I've tried recently to enlarge the type in the panel showing messages from my accounts (new glasses). Going through TB help is tough going because the topics presented often don't have anything to do with my question and there are to few options for filtering and sorting -- at least that I know about. So I find TB Help unhelpful maybe 50% of the time.
My results are from TB 91/W10. You should check that each calendar has the correct email in calendar Properties, and perhaps test with a new profile to test for some error in the current profile. Help/More Troubleshooting, about:profiles, to create and manage profiles.
Fonts in the Threads and Folder panes are best set with a userChrome file:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1360794
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Thanks for the links. However, I cannot follow the instructions precisely because at one point the make no sense to me and at another the location doesn't seem to exist. I follow the 1st part but then the "Save" command through to "copy" doesn't make sense to me. I copied the code provided into the userChrome.css file that I saved in new folder Chrome in my profile folder. Then I'm lost again as there is nothing called Config in my Preferences/General page. This part seems oriented towards FF, not TB.
Help/More Troubleshooting, Profile Folder, Open Directory, close TB, create a new folder named chrome, create a new document in chrome with a text editor, name it userChrome.css, Save as type: All files *.*, copy in the above code, change the numbers as desired. Double-click toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets to true in Preferences/General/Config. editor, restart TB.
The folder that is manually created in the profile folder is named chrome, not Chrome.
On Windows, the command is Open Folder; Open Directory is for Linux.
The Config. editor is at the bottom of the Preferences/General tab (or type editor in Find in Preferences).
Sloppy work on my part. :-( Changed Chrome to chrome and then found the config editor right where you said it should be. I just didn't look to the right and see that button off by itself - by design I'd guess.
Tried a couple of font size changes in the userChrome.css file and found a combination that works well for me. Thanks much for hanging in there with me.