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I'm trying to run Thunderbird 0.8 on Suse 9.1 + Gnome 2.4. For the moment its just installed in a directory in my home directory. But for some reason I don't understand, I can only get it to run properly if I run thunderbird (which I guess is a script) and only if I set it to run in a terminal. Is this correct or am I doing something wrong? Also, is there any specific reason that anybody knows that Thunderbird won't let me create a filter from a message, its greyed out and if I manually create filters, they just don't work. I've used the same filters in the Win32 Thunderbird 0.8 Simon
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Simon, Here's what I'd do, assuming you downloaded Thunderbird as a tar.gz file. 1. Log on as superuser in a terminal (this will give you the system authority to follow the rest of these steps). 2. untar the file with the following sequence: tar -xzvf thunderbird.~.tar.gz -C /usr/local (This will unpack the files into a Thunderbird directory under /usr/local/) 3. Still as superuser, enter the following command at any system prompt: ln -s /usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird /usr/bin/thunderbird (This sets up a symbolic link from thunderbird's executable to a "fake" executable in /usr/bin that will trigger whenever you type thunderbird at a system prompt or trigger it from a menu item with thunderbird as a command.) 4. Finally, in whatever window manager you are using, set up a menu item and in the command field within the menu setup window, just type thunderbird. Also, in Gnome, you should be able to go to the "Advanced" section in the Gnome Control Center, find Preferred Applications, and there set thunderbird as your default email client. You'll need to use the full path name, i.e., /usr/bin/thunderbird, when you do that. The full line in that entry should look like this: /usr/bin/thunderbird "%s" or /usr/local/thunderbird/thunderbird "%s" In addition, somewhere in TB's Options section, you can select it as your default email client. (A somewhat less keyboard-intensive approach). Either should work. Al the best, Pete -- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Peter N. Spotts | Science Correspondent The Christian Science Monitor One Norway Street, Boston MA 02115 Office: 617-450-2449 | Office in home: 508-520-3139 Email: pspotts@alum.mit.edu | www.csmonitor.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 19:13 +0200, Simon Taplin wrote:
I'm trying to run Thunderbird 0.8 on Suse 9.1 + Gnome 2.4. For the moment its just installed in a directory in my home directory. But for some reason I don't understand, I can only get it to run properly if I run thunderbird (which I guess is a script) and only if I set it to run in a terminal. Is this correct or am I doing something wrong?
Is this the SuSE rpm? If so, check the menu entry to see if the right executable is listed - if I remember correctly, it should be installed in /opt, so you can edit the menu entry accordingly. If you installed from the tarball yourself, again, you'll need to run ~/thunderbird/thunderbird: you can add a menu entry yourself, or a panel/desktop icon, rather than always running from a terminal. David -- Registered Linux User No 207521 The Linux Counter: http://counter.li.org/ "The above is my personal opinion and does not necessarily reflect that of the little voices in my head."
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