MX-19 Repository: The Thunderbird Thread

[Eadwine Rose]

Installed it.. usually TB sees that, at least in the old version it did. It's not picking it up when I start TB.
xul-ext-firetray 0.6.5-0~mx19+1

Not in add-ons, finds 0.6.1 there. Or should I install that one despite "This add-on is not compatible with your version of Thunderbird."

[mmikeinsantarosa]

Installed it.. usually TB sees that, at least in the old version it did. It's not picking it up when I start TB.
xul-ext-firetray 0.6.5-0~mx19+1

Not in add-ons, finds 0.6.1 there. Or should I install that one despite "This add-on is not compatible with your version of Thunderbird."

I've got some yard work to do before the rain starts. After that I'll take a loo and post back.

[mmikeinsantarosa]

Well dangit! xul-ext-firetray-0.6.5 is limited to thunderbird-60 as well.

I'll see if there's a replacement.

[Eadwine Rose]

Birdtray works in any case.. it's a bit of a fiddle to add all the inbox areas. Four email accounts is nothing, but inside those accounts there are subfolders, and you need to add those too or it doesn't pick them up. Add multiple makes things easy where that is concerned, but it is more work than firetray which just seemed to "see" things, that is for sure.

[JayM]

Birdtray also won't autostart if you add it to Session and Startup/Application Autostart. You instead have to autstart a shell script that sleeps for several seconds (I use 20 as it seems to work best) before starting birdtray. I've never figured out why this is so. But once you get it all set up it works quite well.

[Eadwine Rose]

Oh? If you don't need it to autostart it is no biggie then, and indeed the sleep trick works nicely. I have that on several things that do autostart.

At least you can set it up to have TB start along with it, and also close it when you quit birdtray. I have a panel on the left side with program launchers of things I use regularly, and put the birdtray launcher in TB's spot. Looks the same, starts a wee different but good enough as the end result is the same.

When you get the hang of birdtray it is indeed nice, back when I was pretty much scared off by the multitude of options that I had to set up and went with Firetray :)

[JayM]

I wrote a how to make birdtray work topic in Tips&Tricks if that's helpful to anyone.

[mmikeinsantarosa]

Birdtray also won't autostart if you add it to Session and Startup/Application Autostart. You instead have to autstart a shell script that sleeps for several seconds (I use 20 as it seems to work best) before starting birdtray. I've never figured out why this is so. But once you get it all set up it works quite well.

JayM, Where are you putting your script?

[mmikeinsantarosa]

I just sent birdtray-1.7.0+ds-1 for mx19 to Tim to go into test and asked for the 1.6 to be moved to main. I tested the 1.7 in a VM and it worked OOTB. I just added it to session & startup and set birdtray to start on login and start thunderbird-68.3.1 when it starts.

[Eadwine Rose]

1.6 works fine indeed. :)

The changes in 1.7: https://www.linuxuprising.com/2019/12/t ... ifier.html

Looks like JayM's issue might be fixed with this one :)