T'bird V68 Dark Grey Background Screen. [Solved.]

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RCH21
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T'bird V68 Dark Grey Background Screen. [Solved.]

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Despite the General settings showing background is white, the background I have is dark grey, so the question is, why? Note that I have the same version on my laptop and the background is white.I did however, just do an upgrade on LT, but a clean install was done on the Desktop. Has anyone have any clues?
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Re: Thunderbird V68 Dark Grey Background Screen

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Under what menu path are you finding that option selected?
Have you compared the settings on the two machines?
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Re: Thunderbird V68 Dark Grey Background Screen

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It may be the way you have Windows set up. There is a setting in Settings->Personalisation->Choose your colour (or it may be a radio button) that you can set to dark and light etc. On one machine you may have it set as dark, on the other light.
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Re: Thunderbird V68 Dark Grey Background Screen

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Yes, it was the Windows background setting, to blame.

Thanks for tip.
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Glad it worked. Please can you change the subject line to include "[SOLVED]" as it helps others. (Many thanks).
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Re: Thunderbird V68 Dark Grey Background Screen

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One thing I must point out is that Windows 10 Settings has had a dark grey background for some time without any affect on former Thunderbird versions, but this changed when I installed V68.
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Re: Thunderbird V68 Dark Grey Background Screen

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Yes. I think the new version picks up this setting from Windows, which previous versions have not done.
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Re: T'bird V68 Dark Grey Background Screen. [Solved.]

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I set Windows to dark and apps to light, but Thunderbird still came out dark, so it is something the Thunderbird developers should work on to fix.
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