Here is what I have found. First of all, I have Ubuntu 10.04 with GLX- Dock (Cairo Dock with Open-GL) installed on my system. My issue was caused when I installed the Cairo Dock add-on in Thunderbird 16.0.1, then I right clicked on my Thunderbird icon in my GLX-Dock and selected 'other actions - fullscreen'
After that, I did not get the option in the GLX-Dock, or in Thunderbird, to change it back to normal screen. What I found was that this changed the screen size settings in localstore.rdf to the following settings: <RDF:Description RDF:about="chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xul#messengerWindow" width="700" height="403" screenX="0" screenY="3" sizemode="maximized" /> I then changed filename of localstore.rdf to localstore.rdf.old and restarted Thunderbird. Thunderbird created a new localstore.rdf file on startup with the following default settings, which were correct settings to eliminate the issue. <RDF:Description RDF:about="chrome://messenger/content/messenger.xul#messengerWindow" width="1024" height="711" screenX="0" screenY="3" sizemode="normal" /> note: screenY="3" on my system because I have a hidden panel on top that is set to 3 pixels wide until I scroll over it. ScreenY would probably be "0" on most systems. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to thunderbird in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/196058 Title: Thunderbird starts in a full-screen mode and cannot be restored Status in Mozilla Thunderbird Mail and News: New Status in “thunderbird” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: WORKAROUND: 1. Edit ~/.thunderbird/*/localstore.rdf 2. Search for: sizemode="fullscreen" 3. Change it to: sizemode="normal" ORIGINAL DESCRIPTION: Binary package hint: thunderbird I've tried clicking F11 in various of places and even all the rest of F-buttons, with Alt/Shift/Ctrl, and still no result. I've scrolled throughout the whole advanced configuration and there was nothing about full-screen mode. I don't have any extensions yet installed on my Thunderbird and I don't know what to do next. The problem has it basics because the profile that I've switched to, comes from previous Windows installation. I'm begging for Your help. It is stupid but really frustrating. ProblemType: Bug Architecture: i386 Date: Wed Feb 27 10:05:55 2008 Dependencies: DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04 Package: mozilla-thunderbird None [modified: /var/lib/dpkg/info/mozilla-thunderbird.list] PackageArchitecture: all SourcePackage: thunderbird Uname: Linux 2.6.24-10-generic i686 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/thunderbird/+bug/196058/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp