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| Newer page: | version 16 | Last edited on Tuesday, December 21, 2004 12:52:10 am | by MikkoRantalainen | Revert |
| Older page: | version 15 | Last edited on Sunday, December 12, 2004 5:02:44 pm | by CraigBox | Revert |
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As well as that, you can define another [FTP] program to handle the [FTP] transactions (though [Mozilla] handles them just fine, try the following:
user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/location/to/ftpprogram");
+
+----
+
+!! Thunderbird launch script
+
+Here's the launcher script I use to start Thunderbird (installed from .tar.gz) in my Linux Mandrake 10.0. This script uses existing Thunderbird process if possible or launches a new one if needed. This script prints "./mozilla-xremote-client: Error: Failed to find a running server." in the terminal if no old process is running. I don't like the 'ping()' trick used in the MozillaFirefoxStartupScript because it slows down the process. Instead I just try to use the remote and if it fails, I fall back to normal behavior.
+
+<verbatim>
+#!/bin/bash2
+
+# Make this script really quiet:
+#exec &>/dev/null
+
+# use UTF-8 environment
+# change "fi_FI" to language code you prefer.
+# for possible options "locale -a | grep UTF-8"
+export LC_TIME=fi_FI.UTF-8
+export LC_MONETARY=fi_FI.UTF-8
+export LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8
+
+# executable name
+mozexe="thunderbird"
+# application name to use with remote, note the capital T in the start!
+appname="Thunderbird"
+# installation directory (just "tar zvfx package.tar.gz")
+mozdir="/system/apps/mozilla-thunderbird/current"
+# x-remote binary name
+remote="mozilla-xremote-client"
+
+# use lesser priority for Thunderbird, it likes to eat CPU
+exec="exec nice "
+
+pwd="$(pwd)"
+
+# Change to Thunderbird install dir:
+cd "$mozdir"
+
+if [ "$1" != "" ]; then
+ # FIXME remove "mailto:" from $1 if it's there
+ ./$remote -a $appname "mailto($@)" || $exec ./$mozexe "mailto:$@" &
+else
+ ./$remote -a $appname "xfeDoCommand(openInbox)" || $exec ./$mozexe &
+fi
+
+# make sure that Mozilla doesn't die if current terminal is killed, bash2 feature
+disown -a
+# disown -h
+</verbatim>
