Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-18 Thread Curt
On 2024-04-18, wrote: > > > Actually I'm thankful for having got the chance to learn a couple of > languages. It has been a lot of fun. And also to you folks who put up > with my mediocre English. > I'm thankful to have learned enough French to have read the Proust book (la Recherche...).

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-17 Thread tomas
On Wed, Apr 17, 2024 at 05:00:05PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > On 4/17/24 14:52, The Wanderer wrote: [...] > > You're welcome. > > > > Please extend your thanks to Tomas, who is the one who tracked down the > > links that led to the bug report where I found the analysis and this > > advice,

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-17 Thread gene heskett
On 4/17/24 14:52, The Wanderer wrote: On 2024-04-16 at 16:56, gene heskett wrote: On 4/16/24 10:46, The Wanderer wrote: On 2024-04-16 at 10:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: In his original message, he claimed that closing one window makes the other one also close. I asked *how* he was closing

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-17 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-04-16 at 16:56, gene heskett wrote: > On 4/16/24 10:46, The Wanderer wrote: > >> On 2024-04-16 at 10:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: >>> In his original message, he claimed that closing one window >>> makes the other one also close. >>> >>> I asked *how* he was closing them, and he said that

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-17 Thread Curt
On 2024-04-16, gene heskett wrote: > On 4/16/24 10:22, Curt wrote: >> On 2024-04-15, gene heskett wrote: >>> For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of >>> the gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 >>> separate workspaces, and both appear to

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-17 Thread Max Nikulin
On 16/04/2024 23:11, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: Makes sense, TB seems to remember its window configuration [1] [...] [1] Can't they just let the window manager do its job? I am in doubts if saving list of windows and list of folders and messages opened in all tabs of each window could and

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-16 Thread gene heskett
On 4/16/24 10:46, The Wanderer wrote: On 2024-04-16 at 10:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 02:21:27PM -, Curt wrote: Have you tried *closing* one of the two windows, *quitting* the remaining one, and then restarting your bird? In his original message, he claimed that

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-16 Thread gene heskett
On 4/16/24 10:22, Curt wrote: On 2024-04-15, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 separate workspaces, and both appear to work for some definition of working, but quitting

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-16 Thread tomas
On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 10:39:42AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 2024-04-16 at 10:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 02:21:27PM -, Curt wrote: > > > >> Have you tried *closing* one of the two windows, *quitting* the > >> remaining one, and then restarting your bird? >

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-16 Thread Curt
On 2024-04-16, The Wanderer wrote: > > What needs to happen, according to that analysis, is to close one of the > windows not by File -> Exit or File -> Quit, but by File -> Close. (In > my - severely obsolete - Thunderbird version, it's near the top of the > File menu, and has the associated

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-16 Thread Curt
On 2024-04-16, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 02:21:27PM -, Curt wrote: >> Have you tried *closing* one of the two windows, *quitting* the >> remaining one, and then restarting your bird? > > In his original message, he claimed that closing one window makes the > other one

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-16 Thread The Wanderer
On 2024-04-16 at 10:28, Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 02:21:27PM -, Curt wrote: > >> Have you tried *closing* one of the two windows, *quitting* the >> remaining one, and then restarting your bird? > > In his original message, he claimed that closing one window makes > the

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-16 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 02:21:27PM -, Curt wrote: > Have you tried *closing* one of the two windows, *quitting* the > remaining one, and then restarting your bird? In his original message, he claimed that closing one window makes the other one also close. I asked *how* he was closing them,

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-16 Thread Curt
On 2024-04-15, gene heskett wrote: > For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of > the gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 > separate workspaces, and both appear to work for some definition of > working, but quitting one actually quits

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 15:26, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 03:10:20PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] Try running "thunderbird" from a terminal emulator and see what happens. Stopped it. opened an xfce4 terminal and typed "thunderbird"enter, same old same old, two gui's stacked on

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 14:24, David Wright wrote: On Tue 16 Apr 2024 at 01:20:03 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: On 16/4/24 00:49, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:59:25AM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15,

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 14:01, Matthew Lemon wrote: aptitude purge '?and(~i ?tag(suite::kde))' I thought it was installed, but apparently is not. Cheers, Gene Heskett, CET. -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 12:49, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:59:25AM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread tomas
On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 03:10:20PM -0400, gene heskett wrote: [...] > > Try running "thunderbird" from a terminal emulator and see what happens. > > > Stopped it. opened an xfce4 terminal and typed "thunderbird"enter, same old > same old, two gui's stacked on top of each other. This, at least,

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread Roy J. Tellason, Sr.
On Monday 15 April 2024 10:13:06 am Charles Curley wrote: > On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:28:24 -0400 > gene heskett wrote: > > > I am supposedly running xfc4 as a desktop, but htop says I have a > > heck of a lot of kde5 running. How do I get rid of the kde stuff? > > Dependencies seem to be

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 11:00, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the gui stacked on top of each other. I can

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 10:13, Charles Curley wrote: On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:28:24 -0400 gene heskett wrote: I am supposedly running xfc4 as a desktop, but htop says I have a heck of a lot of kde5 running. How do I get rid of the kde stuff? Dependencies seem to be protecting it from being removed. You

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread David Wright
On Tue 16 Apr 2024 at 01:20:03 (+0800), Bret Busby wrote: > On 16/4/24 00:49, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:59:25AM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > > > On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: > > > > On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread Matthew Lemon
On 15-04-2024, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 separate workspaces, and both appear to work for some definition of working, but quitting one actually quits both. If

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread Bret Busby
On 16/4/24 00:49, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:59:25AM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 10:59:25AM -0400, e...@gmx.us wrote: > On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: > > On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: > > > On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > > > > For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of > > > >

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread eben
On 4/15/24 10:01, gene heskett wrote: On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 separate

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread Charles Curley
On Mon, 15 Apr 2024 08:28:24 -0400 gene heskett wrote: > I am supposedly running xfc4 as a desktop, but htop says I have a > heck of a lot of kde5 running. How do I get rid of the kde stuff? > Dependencies seem to be protecting it from being removed. You probably are running one or more

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread gene heskett
On 4/15/24 09:09, Greg Wooledge wrote: On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 separate workspaces, and both appear to work for some

Re: tbird troubles

2024-04-15 Thread Greg Wooledge
On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 08:28:24AM -0400, gene heskett wrote: > For the last 2 or 3 reboots, when launching t-bird, I get 2 copies of the > gui stacked on top of each other. I can move them separately to 2 separate > workspaces, and both appear to work for some definition of working, but >