Each time Thunderbird starts it opens the preferences tab and gives
it focus.
It's not the end of the world but I can't find a way to keep it closed
across restarts.
Is there a solution
Each time Thunderbird starts it opens the preferences tab and gives it focus.
It's not the end of the world but I can't find a way to keep it closed
across restarts.
Is there a solution
regards
Check in the preferences - General - the first item: Thunderbird
startpage.
Herman Viaene
Doesn't happen on my system. Try, in a terminal such as konsole with thunderbird
closed ...
su -
chown -Rc tester:tester /home/tester
Replace tester in the above with your login.
That's from https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Never_use_just_su
The start thunderbird, close the preferences tab, close thunderbird and restart
it to see if that fixed the issue.
On 28/12/20 2:20 pm, David W. Hodgins wrote:
Doesn't happen on my system. Try, in a terminal such as konsole with
thunderbird
closed ...
su -
chown -Rc tester:tester /home/tester
Replace tester in the above with your login.
That's from https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Never_use_just_su
The start thunderbird, close the preferences tab, close thunderbird and
restart
it to see if that fixed the issue.
Interesting stuff. The su, su -, is always in the back of my mind.
I never quite understood it though..
My problem doesn't seem to be with env variables, it's more a
corruption of Thunderbird. init files .
The old solution of renaming the hidden config directory initiates a
new session of Thunderbird without the "stuck on" preferences tab.
I will eventually have to sort through the "json, sqlite" files where it resides
On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 13:15:58 +1100, faeychild wrote:
On 28/12/20 2:20 pm, David W. Hodgins wrote:
Doesn't happen on my system. Try, in a terminal such as konsole with
thunderbird
closed ...
su -
chown -Rc tester:tester /home/tester
Replace tester in the above with your login.
That's from https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Never_use_just_su
The start thunderbird, close the preferences tab, close thunderbird and
restart
it to see if that fixed the issue.
Interesting stuff. The su, su -, is always in the back of my mind.
I never quite understood it though..
It is pretty straight forward. "su -" and "su - root" will use root's environment and just su will use whoever issues the "su". As a result
of just su, any files modified/created will be owned by root, not the user.
My problem doesn't seem to be with env variables, it's more a
corruption of Thunderbird. init files .
Yes, but, if you did a "su" and ran thunderbird, thunderbird's files
could be owned by root and any changes made by you will not get applied
to files owned by root.
Here is a fun fact. Thunderbird/Firefox have a feature where you canprefs.js
set custom preferences in a file named user.js.
Preferences set in that file override same settings usually found in
On 28/12/20 7:47 pm, Herman Viaene wrote:
Check in the preferences - General - the first item: ThunderbirdChecking the StartUp page checkbox - no change
startpage.
Herman Viaene
Checking the StartUp page checkbox - no change
What was there??? And did you restore the default??? What effect had that?
Herman
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