Thunderbird display launch location
I am running Elementary OS, which is Ubuntu core in every way but uses the Pantheon GUI instead of Gnome, and every time I launch Thunderbird it displays in the center of the screen no matter where I had moved it previously! (sorry for the exclamation, but it is very annoying)
Please before responding with how to go into system settings, workspace, etc, etc, there are no settings for where programs get launched in Elementary OS it just saves app location, size, etc normally by default like retail OSs. The annoyance with Thunderbird is - every other app on the computer remembers where it was moved/closed from - just not Thunderbird.
So how can one save the location of where Thunderbird was moved and closed from so it launches in that same place when opened?
I saw the page you can access in Preferences where core settings can be changed, but could not see any entries for geometry or window location, etc listed... and I don't want to install 3rd party apps just to control where Thunderbird launches on the screen.
Thank you Scott
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Try this: Help/More Troubleshooting, Profile Folder, Open Directory, close TB, delete session.json and xulstore.json. Restart TB a few times and see if the layout at closing is retained.
Thanks for the assistance, however that didn't do anything.. First, I could not click on the link that would have open the folder, it just did nothing, however I could select a blue link towards the bottom that said (about:profiles) which showed me the directory information for the profiles.
Closed TB, deleted the two files mentioned, along with one that said it was a backup, restarted the system and launched TB, moved window, set columns, etc, and closed.. reopened and its still launching in the middle of the screen.
Though it IS saving all the changes of columns, edited tool bar, etc just not launch screen position..
I did notice something odd, which is there is a profile that says (default) and another that says (default-default) and I have the ability to create a profile.. It says it is using the (default-default) profile. Maybe that is causing an issue with saving the location?
Going to try creating a new profile and see what happens.
Nope a new profile did notihing, even had to setup all emails again..... switched back to the (default-default) profile and everything is back (accounts, appearance) but still loads in the middle of the screen. -(
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There's no problem having multiple profiles, but there is a single Default profile (not necessarily named 'default'), and any profile can be launched from about:profiles.
I don't know why it's loading in the middle - possibly inherent to the version provided by your Linux distro. You can try the basic Linux version from here.
Using stable version from Mozilla, not what came with distro. (EOS ships with a buggy flavor of gnome mail, I think, that is not worth using if you have accounts on public email services as it times out, and lags the entire app when checking email...)
About the only thing I haven't tried is pulling out an old hd and installing Ubuntu to see how TB behaves.. that's a bit drawn out seeing that there are other forums with people asking about the same issue on other linux flavors, but all offering 3rd party tweaks solutions which I am trying to avoid.
I would just chock it up to a Pantheon thing except every other app, distro or downloaded, work perfectly as far as saving themselves relative to the desktop.
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