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My Thunderbird profile predates Mepis/MX and lives in my data partition. I edit the profile.ini file to point each installation to it. The earliest version of Thunderbird on this installation would have been whatever came with the ISO.

Yes - the colours show on screen but no longer print. I tried printing to .pdf but that's also missing the colours. This is a deal breaker for me - I need a monthly calendar to pin on the kitchen noticeboard. It takes events from 8 colour-coded calendar files and without the colours it's impossible to see which the event relates to. Increasing the text detail won't work - on some days the text already overflows the space.

Eadwine Rose wrote: Tue Jan 14, 2020 4:24 am I DID bring the .thunderbird folder along, yes. But I had to manually add lightning when I upgraded first. Given all that was now in order I assumed it would be fine when upgrading from the former 68 to the current.

There is just NO way that I am going to start with a clean profile.. too many mails in there We'll see how the next upgrade fares.

I hear you loud and clear. I have emails dating back 15+ years (OMG how has all of that time managed to pass by) and Lightning "stuff" that goes back for severral years, as well as forward indefinitely for some really important dates. Everything has to work with a move from XFCE profile to XFCE profile, regardless if MX or Mint are being used. My last issues however, the ones with the Janaury 20th update, were apaprently more related to themes/add-ons than anything else.

@Gaer Boy
Have you done a complete reboot yet? I have everything color coded as well. My first issue had to do with an incompatible dark theme which I changed to a compatible one. That definitely helped but didn't fix everything. As soon as I finished a complete reboot of the system, everything was back, even the color coding. Perhaps that might help you as well?

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Beratung wrote: Tue Jan 21, 2020 6:35 am @Gaer Boy
Have you done a complete reboot yet? I have everything color coded as well. My first issue had to do with an incompatible dark theme which I changed to a compatible one. That definitely helped but didn't fix everything. As soon as I finished a complete reboot of the system, everything was back, even the color coding. Perhaps that might help you as well?
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Thanks, but I have tried rebooting to no effect. The colours are there on screen but do not print - and I have checked all the printer settings.

Are you printing screenshots from file or are you printing from within the web-browser? Sometimes color adjustments can be made from the browser cups settings as well? Last but not least, have you tried it by booting to MX with systemd enabled during boot? I've been able to correct printer issues that way in the past. And if neither of the above work, then I guess that only leaves the latest Thunderbird package from the repos to try, or ugh, reverting to an earlier version. My wife once reverted to an earlier version in order to have all of those settings, but then she copied her most current message store folders into that reverted version, so she'd have her older Thunderbird but with all new messages intact.
That's about all that I can come up with ...

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I'm printing using Thunderbird's built-in routine. I've tried both direct printing and printing to .pdf - both give the same result. There's nothing wrong with the printer settings - it's Thunderbird's implementation that has changed. I find that it's also necessary to set the orientation to landscape each time I print, whereas v60.9 remembered that setting.

There's no later version of Thunderbird in the repos and I can't find a solution, so I will downgrade to v60.9. If I can find the mx19 version, I'll use that, otherwise the Debian version.

Thanks for trying.

Downgrading is not something I really want to do and I've been searching for solutions. Apparently v68.4.2 resolves some graphics problems introduced in v68. Can this be added to the repo, please.

It's being reported worked on already.

I have been eyeing the update that is in the works, checking the test repo, but it is not appearing. Am I doing something wrong, or has it simply not been sent up yet?

Eadwine Rose wrote: Wed Jan 29, 2020 9:09 am I have been eyeing the update that is in the works, checking the test repo, but it is not appearing. Am I doing something wrong, or has it simply not been sent up yet?

Eadwine, I got it up late last night and it just showed up in the main repo so it may take a bit for it to make it into synaptic.

In the main repo? Shouldn't that be in test?

edit: there it is.. well.. let's see!


Oh sorry about that.. I didn't mean to say "yo hurry the f up", hahaha, I was just genuinely wondering if I was looking in the wrong spot or something :)