Closed
Bug 589237
Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
Thunderbird does not autostart in KDE if it was running on logout/shutdown/restart
Categories
(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)
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RESOLVED
DUPLICATE
of bug 508986
People
(Reporter: gobzo, Assigned: orion)
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100723 Fedora/3.6.7-1.fc13 Firefox 3.6.3 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729) Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.7) Gecko/20100720 Fedora/3.1.1-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.1 Only Thunderbird does not autostart in KDE if it was running on logout/shutdown/restart Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start linux with KDE 4.4.5 2. Start Thunderbird 3. Log out 4. Log back in Actual Results: All application which were running on logout will automatically start except for Thunderbird Expected Results: Thunderbird should auto start if it was running on logout in KDE
I think the problem is that KDE restores the session by the executable name, which is thunderbird-bin rather than thunderbird. Thus, when logging in again, tunderbird-bin may not be in the path (and it shouldn't be the path to call anyway as the thunderbird script does a couple of necessary setup actions). You can try the following as a workaround to verify that theory: 1) In a konsole window, type "which thunderbird" to get the full path 2) assuming that you have /usr/local/bin/ in your path, make a symlink with ln -s /usr/bin/thunderbird /usr/local/bin/thunderbird-bin Now try again and see if it resolves the issue (this assumes in #2 that your thunderbird path is /usr/bin/thunderbird, it may be different). If you don't have /usr/local/bin in your path (or don't want it there), you can also put thunderbird-bin into /usr/bin as a symlink to the thunderbird startup script.
Wayne, any suggestion how to resolve this bug? It seems to be more an issue with proper packaging by the Linux distributors, and they should take care of an applicable thunderbird-bin symlink to make it work with KDE; or, one could claim KDE has a problem here but not correctly taking note of the executable and its environment variables when setting up a session. Either way, not much that could be done from Thunderbird's side as it's a desktop-management issue.
Comment 4•14 years ago
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caillon, matej, any suggestions? ... (In reply to comment #3) > Wayne, any suggestion how to resolve this bug? It seems to be more an issue > with proper packaging by the Linux distributors, and they should take care of > an applicable thunderbird-bin symlink to make it work with KDE; or, one could > claim KDE has a problem here but not correctly taking note of the executable > and its environment variables when setting up a session. Either way, not much > that could be done from Thunderbird's side as it's a desktop-management issue.
Comment 5•14 years ago
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No, this is our actually a bug in Thunderbird (and it was a bug in Firefox), that its registration with system is not compliant with XSMP. Our bug (in See Also bugs) mentions Mozilla bug 541806 (duplicate of the following), bug 508986 (fixed for Firefox, see http://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/16d4bba25a84), and bug 93789 (fixed as well, not sure what the patch is).
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Comment 7•14 years ago
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This fixes my issue with not saving on "save session". May fix others as well. $ grep thunderbird ~/.kde/share/config/ksmserverrc command1=thunderbird program13=thunderbird-bin restartCommand13=/usr/bin/thunderbird,--sm-config-prefix,/thunderbird-bin-pRBSHh/,--sm-client-id,106f726361000128889890400000027610035,--screen,0
Confirming per previous comments. Orion, do you want to take this bug since you posted a patch already, and was that to be considered a draft only?
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: OS Integration → Startup and Profile System
Ever confirmed: true
Product: Thunderbird → Toolkit
QA Contact: os-integration → startup
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Comment 9•14 years ago
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I'm not a mozilla developer, so I can't take the bug. Someone definitely should review the patch as I don't know what the rest of save_yourself_cb is doing. It also needs to be tested in the normal logout/restore scenario. It may be that it never gets called with shutdown=TRUE, which might be causing other problems. I hope to test that shortly.
Comment 10•14 years ago
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I've assigned it to you, thus you should have full control on the bug now. The requests for bug 508986 may be a good reference for who can review your patch.
Assignee: nobody → orion
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Comment 11•14 years ago
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Actually, I think this is just a dupe of bug 508986, and it appears to have a better patch. I'm running 3.1.6 (1.9.2) though which doesn't have it.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 14 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Comment 12•14 years ago
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The patch for bug 508986 landed on mozilla-central only, not on mozilla-1.9.2 which would be needed to make it visible in TB 3.1.x (I assumed that your patch was supposed to go on top of Wolfgang's solution in the other bug...).
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