On 12/6/22 22:57, David Wright wrote:
On Tue 06 Dec 2022 at 21:03:47 (-0500), gene heskett wrote:
On 12/6/22 19:39, Felix Miata wrote:
gene heskett composed on 2022-12-06 18:58 (UTC-0500):
Felix Miata wrote:
gene heskett composed on 2022-06-15 06:34 (UTC-0400):
What the heck is this vertical bar it uses for a quote level
That's taken care of here with one or both of these two entries in prefs.js in
the
profiledir:
what or where is this "profiledir:"?
Mozilla's own product profiles can be located anywhere a user chooses to put
them.
Profile names and locations are controlled for
Firefox in ~/.mozilla/firefox/profiles.ini.
SeaMonkey in ~/.mozilla/seamonkey/profiles.ini
ThunderBird in ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini
Derivatives of them may be in a subdirectory in ~/.config/ or in ~/.*, such as
Pale Moon in ~/.moonchild productions/pale moon/profiles.ini
...
/home/gene/.thunderbird/f37v8icg.default-default/prefs.js
...
I count 8 prefs.js in the above list, so which one is actually being
talked about here?
Verify by examining ~/.thunderbird/profiles.ini.
Thank you Felix.
I did that but the prefs.js at that address does not contain any of
the the strings referenced in the original reply from Chuck Zmudzinski
on 6/18/22.
Make a change to your preferences, save it, then:
$ find . -type f -mmin -1440 -printf '%Ta%TH:%TM:%.5TS%11s %P\n' | sort -n
-k 2 | less # one day
Edit the . to a reasonable top of tree, 1440 to more like ten,
and the sort order, 2 (size) to 1 (timestamp) or 3 (filename).
That command will tell you what change in the last few minutes.
I'd love to be able to install TDE, which would give me back the best
email agent linux ever had, kmail-3.5 but with all its bugs fixed, but
the first TDE package I select, generates over 300 hits of dependency
hell from synaptic.
/var/log/apt/history keeps a record of what's installed by APT.
Look at the current contents and see whether that's true for
synaptic. If so, go for it; you can easily purge them all again
if you don't get what you want, by editing the history.
BTW, following the current rowlett thread, and seeing recommendations
for kate as an autoindenting editor, I typed:
$ apt-get -s install kate
to give, with Recommends included:
0 upgraded, 167 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
So 300 packages for a DE doesn't seem unreasonable.
That I would be ok with, but it wants to totally purge the rest of the
install, including all of X11, not at all encouraging.
And rebooting now is scary, since mid october it sits dead in the water
for anywhere up to 20 minutes with zero disk activity before loading
grub or the bios editor. Exiting the bios editor to do yet another
reboot, kills another 10 to 20 minutes before it loads the grub menu.
Once it boots, it runs pretty normally. The latest memtest86 update I
have, downloaded about 6 months ago, gives the 32GB of memory a clean
bill of health.
I have a usb tree that looks like a 30 year old weeping willow, lots of
stuff including 2 usb<->serial adaptors, neither of which are connected
to anything even remotely resembling a tty for the blind, but the
installer doesn't ask if I want orca or brltty, it just puts them in
rendering the machine unusable to a sighted, hearing person.
But it took 20+ installs for someone to tell me I had to unplug all that
stuff to do a normal install. Buster Just Worked, bullseye has been a
disaster from the gitgo. Most of that disaster created by the installer
going bats--- crazy when it finds a usb<->serial adapter. It might be
connected to a cm11a for home automation, it might be connected to a ups
but the installer ASSUMES its connected to a tty and puts all that stuff
in w/o asking the user. The chance of actually having a tty are under
1%, ASK the user!
So I'm stuck with t-bird and its plethora of oddly spec'd hot keys
that do nothing for the user but screw things up, many times doing
nothing but stealing the focus w/o any popup. Just typing to reply to
this msg has caused 6 pop-ups that had to be closed before I could
resume typing in the middle of a word. Twice I've had to reclick on
the blinking curser before it would resume accepting what I type. Yet
folks accept that? More bugs than a 10 day old road kill in the
northern hemispheres July.
Cheers,
David.
.
Take care and stay well everybody.
Cheers, Gene Heskett.
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