Sorry if this is a bit OT, or not Suse specific, but I have tried the Mozilla forums and not had any success, so thought I would try the brains here.... Have Suse 10.3 64bit installed, and tried installing Lightning (the Thunderbird Calendar Add-On - looks promising!). No error messages but comes up with no calendar file. When trying to create a new calendar, gets to the name and colour dialogue, but won't go any further. I am not using the default Thunderbird profile location, as I access the data from several OSs on the same PC If I move the data to the default location, Lightning works fine, but when moved back to my normal location, again there is no calendar..... Have also tried this on another PC with Suse 10.2 32bit being the only OS, but again with data not in the default location, and get the same result.... Have tested in Vista (on the same machine), and pointing to the same set of Thunderbird folders, it works, but going back in to linux, it still doesn't work, even though I know I have a valid calendar file in my folders. So it would appear that this is a Linux problem with moved folders? The original install of Thunderbird was from the Mozilla site (thunderbird-2.0.0.6), just untarred and ran thunderbird. Have tried using Smart to download and install both the 64bit and 32bit versions, and have the same result with both, after uninstalling and reinstalling the lightning.xpi. Sounds like a bug in the XPI, but has anybody using this in a similar config, or had any luck, or otherwise?? Appears that if you move your Thunderbird data location, Lightning won't work?? Any ideas? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Sorry if this is a bit OT, or not Suse specific, but I have tried the Mozilla forums and not had any success, so thought I would try the brains here.... Have Suse 10.3 64bit installed, and tried installing Lightning (the Thunderbird Calendar Add-On - looks promising!). No error messages but comes up with no calendar file. When trying to create a new calendar, gets to the name and colour dialogue, but won't go any further. I am not using the default Thunderbird profile location, as I access the data from several OSs on the same PC If I move the data to the default location, Lightning works fine, but when moved back to my normal location, again there is no calendar..... Have also tried this on another PC with Suse 10.2 32bit being the only OS, but again with data not in the default location, and get the same result.... Have tested in Vista (on the same machine), and pointing to the same set of Thunderbird folders, it works, but going back in to linux, it still doesn't work, even though I know I have a valid calendar file in my folders. So it would appear that this is a Linux problem with moved folders? The original install of Thunderbird was from the Mozilla site (thunderbird-2.0.0.6), just untarred and ran thunderbird. Have tried using Smart to download and install both the 64bit and 32bit versions, and have the same result with both, after uninstalling and reinstalling the lightning.xpi. Sounds like a bug in the XPI, but has anybody using this in a similar config, or had any luck, or otherwise?? Appears that if you move your Thunderbird data location, Lightning won't work?? Any ideas?
I have lightening 0,7 working on my SuSE released Thunderbird, with 0.5 you did have a nice little calendar window, but with 0.7 you get access via some icons on the top tool bar which switch one into a full screen view... If you need to move between OSs either you need an external calendar server of some sort, or a shared area to export and import calendars. Lightening for some reason exports calendars as html (to be honest not tried out this function for importing)... you will probably need to apply dos2unix and unix2dos on the output files to make them readable to the different systems. - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHMDw6asN0sSnLmgIRAt+bAJ4l58xGLRIjeJzf14UKgXATCUF8twCfR1rn Rh/nJsoWyCBCzm0C1pG5B5s= =Qj21 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Sorry if this is a bit OT, or not Suse specific, but I have tried the Mozilla forums and not had any success, so thought I would try the brains here....
The original install of Thunderbird was from the Mozilla site (thunderbird-2.0.0.6), just untarred and ran thunderbird. Have tried using Smart to download and install both the 64bit and 32bit versions, and have the same result with both, after uninstalling and reinstalling the lightning.xpi. Sounds like a bug in the XPI, but has anybody using this in a similar config, or had any luck, or otherwise?? Appears that if you move your Thunderbird data location, Lightning won't work?? Any ideas?
I have lightening 0,7 working on my SuSE released Thunderbird, with 0.5 you did have a nice little calendar window, but with 0.7 you get access via some icons on the top tool bar which switch one into a full screen view...
If you need to move between OSs either you need an external calendar server of some sort, or a shared area to export and import calendars. Lightening for some reason exports calendars as html (to be honest not tried out this function for importing)... you will probably need to apply dos2unix and unix2dos on the output files to make them readable to the different systems.
Graham, My setup is: the Thunderbird data is sitting in a shared (FAT32) partition that all my OS's can access, so I can boot into any of them and access the data automagically. Don't have to change anything, just have the thunderbird profile setup to point to the shared partition - works great for Thunderbird! So I am not actually changing anything, the data is in a fixed location, but there appears to be something about Lightning that doesn't like the "non-default" location... Would be great if I could get it to work.... :-( John. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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If you need to move between OSs either you need an external calendar server of some sort, or a shared area to export and import calendars. Lightening for some reason exports calendars as html (to be honest not tried out this function for importing)... you will probably need to apply dos2unix and unix2dos on the output files to make them readable to the different systems.
Graham, My setup is: the Thunderbird data is sitting in a shared (FAT32) partition that all my OS's can access, so I can boot into any of them and access the data automagically. Don't have to change anything, just have the thunderbird profile setup to point to the shared partition - works great for Thunderbird! So I am not actually changing anything, the data is in a fixed location, but there appears to be something about Lightning that doesn't like the "non-default" location... Would be great if I could get it to work.... :-(
John.
There is a significant difference between how data and path information is organised (\ rather than / for a starter) on Linux and Windows... Unless the XPI is built to be cross platform I would be surprised if the windows version could could read the linux data directly and vice versa... If is storing in text related format i.e. xml, differences in end of line designation may be enough to give trouble. A quick look at the setup indicates that some of the executables are binaries and are part of extension structure so there are further complications... in that this is not a pure java plugin.... - -- ============================================================================== I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. Bjarne Stroustrup ============================================================================== -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHME0/asN0sSnLmgIRAsRwAKDaaiEQveg6l8VYytGnNG5gIdR5wgCgiVDe FSBTogG4/NRvSwzm0ZU9C98= =01Uh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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If is storing in text related format i.e. xml, differences in end of line designation may be enough to give trouble.
The XML spec goes out of its way to avoid such trouble :) <http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/REC-xml11-20060816/#sec-line-ends> Cheers, Dave -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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G T Smith wrote:
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John Bennett wrote:
Sorry if this is a bit OT, or not Suse specific, but I have tried the Mozilla forums and not had any success, so thought I would try the brains here....
The original install of Thunderbird was from the Mozilla site (thunderbird-2.0.0.6), just untarred and ran thunderbird. Have tried using Smart to download and install both the 64bit and 32bit versions, and have the same result with both, after uninstalling and reinstalling the lightning.xpi. Sounds like a bug in the XPI, but has anybody using this in a similar config, or had any luck, or otherwise?? Appears that if you move your Thunderbird data location, Lightning won't work?? Any ideas?
I have lightening 0,7 working on my SuSE released Thunderbird, with 0.5 you did have a nice little calendar window, but with 0.7 you get access via some icons on the top tool bar which switch one into a full screen view...
If you need to move between OSs either you need an external calendar server of some sort, or a shared area to export and import calendars. Lightening for some reason exports calendars as html (to be honest not tried out this function for importing)... you will probably need to apply dos2unix and unix2dos on the output files to make them readable to the different systems.
Graham, My setup is: the Thunderbird data is sitting in a shared (FAT32) partition that all my OS's can access, so I can boot into any of them and access the data automagically. Don't have to change anything, just have the thunderbird profile setup to point to the shared partition - works great for Thunderbird! So I am not actually changing anything, the data is in a fixed location, but there appears to be something about Lightning that doesn't like the "non-default" location... Would be great if I could get it to work.... :-(
John. Might Lightning be creating it's own directory under .mozilla (or the win32 equivalent) to store bits and pieces in? If so, I guess you'll need to make arrangements similar to those you made for TB. Something in about:config, perhaps?
Alternatively, if you have a second machine you tend to leave on, you could run DAViCal ( see http://rscds.sourceforge.net/installation.php ) It's pretty easy to set up under Debian, but perhaps more hassle than it's worth under SuSE. Up to you. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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