[LINK] Moved to Linux

[Richard Chirgwin]

Kim Holburn wrote:
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> On 2006 Sep 10, at 6:18 PM, rchirgwin at ozemail.com.au wrote:
>> However, this has several flow-on effects that the Linspire people 
>> don't seem to have thought of.
>>
>> For example, moving my Thunderbird mail profiles from the old hard 
>> drive meant I had to find out where the copies went, and putting the 
>> copies in the right directory. This directory is only accessible as 
>> root, which means you have to enable the root account, change to the 
>> root account, and put the files in the right place; then you have to 
>> log out, log in as the user, and open Thunderbird to see if it can 
>> see the accounts.  Moreover, because there are at least three 
>> directories called Thunderbird-mail-profile (one in user, one in 
>> root, and one which doesn't seem to relate to anything but is there 
>> anyway), this involves a lot of shuffling between directories.
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> That doesn't sound right to me.  Thunderbird profiles should be 
> somewhere in your home directory owned by you.  There should be no 
> profiles anywhere else owned by root.
The profiles go in .usr/lmail/thunderbird/ or something very like it ... 
while .usr is in the user's directory, it's owned by root as the default 
installation (in fact, in the default it's also a hidden directory - you 
have to work out how to view it). This is I suppose a "protect the 
newbie" thing, but it had me confused for a while.

Replying to a couple of other posts, without particularly remembering 
who to quote:
- I haven't worked out where fast user switching is to be found in 
Linspire. This won't worry me most of the time as there's only a single 
user account anyhow.

- Linspire instead of Ubuntu: for the drivers. The primary user of this 
machine is my wife; she mostly uses it for work, and so my own "comfort 
zone" is that I don't have to try and diagnose "something isn't working" 
over the phone.

- HPLIP's claims to support the 2600n are smoke; I wasted a couple of 
hours on it. Whereas pretending the printer is an Apple LasterWriter and 
letting Ghostscript do the rest works just fine. Because the 2600n 
doesn't accept PDF printing, I can't just treat it as a generic printer.

RC
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