Thunderbird and Lightning — 1
After my escapades with Thunderbird 60.x and ReminderFox, I decided to tinker with the Lightning calendar.
Except I couldn’t. The add-on was not installed.
By design Lightning is optional. With a fresh install a notification appears asking whether to use the add-on. There is only silence thereafter. I found no pointy-clicky way to install the add-on. Possibly there is a user prefs configuration to reactive the notification.
Fortunately restoring the add-on is easy. In the Thunderbird installation directory, which on Slackware 14.2 64-bit is /usr/lib64/thunderbird-52.9.1/, is a directory named distribution, with a subdirectory named extensions. In that directory is the Lightning extension.
Copy the {e2fda1a4-762b-4020-b5ad-a41df1933103} directory to the Thunderbird user profile extensionsdirectory.
Launch Thunderbird and after the prompt, allow the installation.
Apparently the fresh install notification process performs the same copy to the user’s profile. That is, the add-on is not a global add-on. When a user rejects the offer, the extension is not copied.
Onward with the tinkering.
Posted: Category: Usability Tagged: General, Thunderbird
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