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

[Jamon Camisso]

Marc Lanctot wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, maybe Icedove on Debian Lenny is better equipped to deal with it 
then (I'm using the x86_64 build and x86_64 xpi as well). Screenshot 
here of it just working, never twiddled with it at all..
http://flickr.com/photos/jamonation/2849116298/sizes/l/

Jamon
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