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    From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Fri Mar 20 21:46:07 2020


    When Thunderbird starts the preference tab is also opened.
    Is a new feature since an update. Can it be disabled?

    regards
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  • From David W. Hodgins@2:250/1 to All on Fri Mar 20 22:16:48 2020
    On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:46:07 -0400, faeychild <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

    When Thunderbird starts the preference tab is also opened.
    Is a new feature since an update. Can it be disabled?

    Doesn't happen here, so it's something on that system. Any root owned files in /home?

    Regards, Dave Hodgins

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Fri Mar 20 22:41:07 2020
    On 21/3/20 9:16 am, David W. Hodgins wrote:
    On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:46:07 -0400, faeychild
    <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

    When Thunderbird starts the preference tab is also opened.
    Is a new feature since an update. Can it be disabled?

    Doesn't happen here, so it's something on that system. Any root owned
    files in
    /home?


    Quite a few actually but they are all "Desktop" links.
    Probably OK.
    I have some hours of video rendering running or I would log out to
    "junk" and test that user.

    I could also rename all the Thunderbird files and restart Thunderbird.

    It's not a big thing I just though someone may have come across it.
    As you say, system related

    regards


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    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso


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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Sat Mar 21 00:09:58 2020
    On 21/3/20 9:41 am, faeychild wrote:

    It's not a big thing I just though someone may have come across it.
    As you say, system related

    regards



    I think I'm having memory lapses.

    While poking around in $HOME files I could find no Thunderbird folders
    or files in ".config"

    As they say "I would have sworn...!!"

    losing it.


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    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso


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  • From Aragorn@2:250/1 to All on Sat Mar 21 01:34:52 2020
    On 21.03.2020 at 11:09, faeychild scribbled:

    On 21/3/20 9:41 am, faeychild wrote:

    It's not a big thing I just though someone may have come across it.
    As you say, system related

    I think I'm having memory lapses.

    While poking around in $HOME files I could find no Thunderbird
    folders or files in ".config"

    As they say "I would have sworn...!!"

    losing it.

    Have you checked ~/.local and/or ~/.cache?



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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Sat Mar 21 03:49:04 2020
    On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 09:41:07 +1100, faeychild wrote:
    On 21/3/20 9:16 am, David W. Hodgins wrote:
    On Fri, 20 Mar 2020 17:46:07 -0400, faeychild
    <faeychild@nomail.afraid.org> wrote:

    When Thunderbird starts the preference tab is also opened.
    Is a new feature since an update. Can it be disabled?

    Doesn't happen here, so it's something on that system. Any root owned
    files in
    /home?


    Quite a few actually but they are all "Desktop" links.

    As a general rule, there should be no root owned files in a user account
    let alone other users.

    To check
    $ find $HOME \( -not -user $USER -or -not -group $USER \) -exec ls -al '{}' \;
    $

    $HOME/.thunderbird
    has your mail and settings stored in *default* directories.


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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Sat Mar 21 05:25:12 2020
    On 21/3/20 2:49 pm, Bit Twister wrote:


    As a general rule, there should be no root owned files in a user account
    let alone other users.

    To check
    $ find $HOME \( -not -user $USER -or -not -group $USER \) -exec ls -al '{}'
    \;
    $

    $HOME/.thunderbird
    has your mail and settings stored in *default* directories.

    The desktop files are all links to /usr/share/applications/*
    and those file all have root permissions.
    Links do not have permissions but I have always run into permission
    problems when trying to modify the Desktop files in $HOME/Desktop

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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Sat Mar 21 05:30:43 2020
    On 21/3/20 12:34 pm, Aragorn wrote:

    As they say "I would have sworn...!!"

    losing it.

    Have you checked ~/.local and/or ~/.cache?




    There is a Thunderbird folder in .cache and a hidden one in $HOME.

    I felt sure there was something in .config or .local.

    Maybe I am confusing it with vlc. But I don't feel up to taking on that
    rabbit hole today

    regards
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    faeychild
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    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso


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  • From Bit Twister@2:250/1 to All on Sat Mar 21 05:47:37 2020
    On Sat, 21 Mar 2020 16:25:12 +1100, faeychild wrote:
    On 21/3/20 2:49 pm, Bit Twister wrote:


    As a general rule, there should be no root owned files in a user account
    let alone other users.

    To check
    $ find $HOME \( -not -user $USER -or -not -group $USER \) -exec ls -al '{}' \;
    $

    $HOME/.thunderbird
    has your mail and settings stored in *default* directories.

    The desktop files are all links to /usr/share/applications/*
    and those file all have root permissions.
    Links do not have permissions but I have always run into permission
    problems when trying to modify the Desktop files in $HOME/Desktop

    As links, that would be normal. None of my ~/Desktop/*.desktop files are
    links because I select Create Launcher to create mine. Guessing you are click/drag from a menu to Desktop for each of yours.

    To modify any of yours, you would unlink it, copy the /user/share...whatever
    to ~/Desktop/ get ownership and modify it as desired.



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  • From faeychild@2:250/1 to All on Sat Mar 21 21:01:35 2020
    On 21/3/20 4:47 pm, Bit Twister wrote:

    As links, that would be normal. None of my ~/Desktop/*.desktop files are links because I select Create Launcher to create mine. Guessing you are click/drag from a menu to Desktop for each of yours.

    Correct!

    It was only after idly clicking around one day that I discovered
    Right click > Create New > Link to Application.

    Which achieves the same aim.

    There is some useful stuff buried in menus that never sees the light of day.


    To modify any of yours, you would unlink it, copy the /user/share...whatever to ~/Desktop/ get ownership and modify it as desired.

    yep. As in cat skinning and the number of ways :-)

    regards



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    Mageia release 7 (Official) for x86_64 installed via Mageia-7-x86_64-DVD.iso


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