On 12/5/23 6:55 PM, Richard Kimberly Heck wrote:
On 12/5/23 20:45, home user wrote:
(Fedora 38; home workstation; Thunderbird 115.5.0)
In early October, I upgraded from Fedora-37 to Fedora-38. Since then, I've been consistently experiencing two types of misbehavior in Thunderbird.
1. When I switch e-mail accounts or folders within an e-mail account, the list of messages (shows subject, sender, date, time, etc.) consistently scrolls away from the most recent message by several lines. It also often does this when I manually scroll to a desired message and select it. Further, when I delete a message, the message list scrolls by several lines.
2. In the calendar, when I select a date and click any of the New Event things (button, menu item, etc.), the Thunderbird window locks up. I have to click the New Event thing a few times before Thunderbird unlocks. Then a few new event GUIs pop up. After that, I am able to create the new event.
These problems showed up immediately after the F37 to F38 upgrade. So the problems seem more likely to be the Fedora upgrade rather than Thunderbird itself. Six Thunderbird patches (according to dnf history) since the upgrade have made no difference.
How do I fix this?
First thing, I'd try setting up a new profile. Command line:
# thunderbird -ProfileManager
and then create a new profile. Then add one of your accounts and see if the problem persists. If so, you might check if the problem exists with some other desktop or window manager. I use Thunderbird constantly, and have not seen this problem.
That said, I froze Thuderbird at 102.9.1, because I was having trouble with the themes under the newer versions. So it's possible the problem exists only in newer versions.
First, I tried the easier thing: another desktop manager. I used KDE rather than Gnome. The problems did not occur. But the fonts were wrong, though both the system fonts and Thunderbird's fonts are set properly. By the way, Thunderbird worked fine the day before the full upgrade from f37 to f38. I do not know what the Thunderbird version was; dnf history did not show it. I patch everything weekly.
A few years ago, with help from a Thunderbird programmer, I had to make difficult changes to my profile/settings/configuration. I no longer recall what those were, but I don't want to lose them. So to try your first suggestion, I'll use a separate user account in which I do not use Thunderbird. Let me address John's post first. I'll get to thunderbird -ProfileManager
after that, if John's suggestion does not work for me.
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