-E-v-o-l-u-t-i-o-n-... Thunderbird + Lightning issue

[Marc Lanctot]

William O'Higgins Witteman wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 02:15:27PM -0400, Madison Kelly wrote:
>> Okay, so I went back to Thunderbird (happy!) and installed Lightning,  
>> but to be blunt, it didn't work *at*all*. I couldn't even add an event,  
>> half the windows and context menus were blank or grayed out. It ate up a  
>> large portion of the screen and I couldn't see how to move it or hide 
>> it...
>>
>> What did I do wrong?
> 
> Maybe nothing.  Is your Thunderbird installed directly, or pulled from a
> distro-specific repository?  I am not able to install Lightning on
> Icedove (Debian).  However, I find that I am happy to use Iceowl when I
> am at a Linux machine.  At work, where I use Windows for my GUI, I use
> Lightning.

I ran into the exact same problem in FC7 in my lab (and using Icedove in 
Debian), but on at home on Ubuntu it works like a charm. Maybe the 
Lightning user list will know why this happens. If there is a fix please 
post it here because I haven't found one.

Marc

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