RE: [expert] Sylpheed looses its default settings
Welcome. I like Suse also. -Original Message- From: Nigel Wilkinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 4:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Sylpheed looses its default settings Hi folks I have recently joined the Mandrake Club haveing been a lomg term SuSE user and am very happy with it, except for one annoying trait. Every time the PC is booted when I open sylpheed for the first time it always complains that it can't find the address book and about ecery other time it makes me go through the full first time setup. Fortunately I use procmail for filtering so the loss of filtr=er rules is not an issue but entering my name, email etc is a complete pain in the preverbial. This happens with the standard 0.8.11 that comes with Mandrake 9.1, as well as with 8.11 claws and 9.6 from the sylpheed site. Occasionally mozilla looses its bookmarks aswell. System info Mandrake 9.1 Reiser FS Any pointers would be gratefully accepted Nigel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sylpheed looses its default settings
I have recently joined the Mandrake Club haveing been a lomg term SuSE Welcome! trait. Every time the PC is booted when I open sylpheed for the first time it always complains that it can't find the address book and about ecery other time it makes me go through the full first time setup. Fortunately I use procmail for filtering so the loss of filtr=er rules is not an issue but entering my name, email etc is a complete pain in the preverbial. This happens with the standard 0.8.11 that comes with Mandrake 9.1, as well as with 8.11 claws and 9.6 from the sylpheed site. It might be best for you to install with an rpm built for mandrake. Charles has a sylpheed 9.6 rpm that he gracously made available to us: http://www.eslrahc.com/ (What's with the site bein all pretty, Charles? :) eric -- Mandrake HowTo's More: http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sylpheed looses its default settings
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Nigel, Eric, others, On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:46:24 -0700, Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about Re: [expert] Sylpheed looses its default settings: This happens with the standard 0.8.11 that comes with Mandrake 9.1, as well as with 8.11 claws and 9.6 from the sylpheed site. It might be best for you to install with an rpm built for mandrake. Charles has a sylpheed 9.6 rpm that he gracously made available to us: In principle you are, of course, completely right in this approach. But in Mandrake 9.0 and 9.1 I have always installed Sylpheed from the latest tarball within days after it`s appearance and never had one problem at all. The only thing I could imagine which I may have seen mentioned on the Sylpheed list is closing Sylpheed with the button in the upper right hand corner: this could perhaps give rise to some settings not being saved and preferable would be closing with [ Ctr + Q ] or [ Alt + F X ]. HTH Regards, =Dick Gevers= . Mandrake visibility? See headers . -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Encryption is an envelope - the contents are private. iD8DBQE/hc7hwC/zk+cxEdMRApn6AJ9cNZQ70T71OHQgfbYs2+POQP52eACbBjih 35MjqKUEzSTUt6Lcj+KQP6M= =NIn6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sylpheed looses its default settings
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:46:24 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trait. Every time the PC is booted when I open sylpheed for the first time it always complains that it can't find the address book and about ecery other time it makes me go through the full first time setup. This can only occur if something is altering your ~.sylpheed/ It is not the program itself which is causing this. Among the some of the possible causes of this occurring are, improper shutdown, failure to close sylpheed before shutdown, bad sectors on hd, improperly configured X-server, faulty power/connection. Run boot and shutdown in verbose mode, you might be able to spot the cause there. It might be best for you to install with an rpm built for mandrake. Charles has a sylpheed 9.6 rpm that he gracously made available to us: http://www.eslrahc.com/ (What's with the site bein all pretty, Charles? :) Well my build a page for me challenge was accepted by John Willby who graciously built and sent me the code this week which I happily uploaded today. Charles pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: [expert] Sylpheed looses its default settings
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 21:10:59 + Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I could imagine which I may have seen mentioned on the Sylpheed list is closing Sylpheed with the button in the upper right hand corner: this could perhaps give rise to some settings not being saved and preferable would be closing with [ Ctr + Q ] or [ Alt + F X ]. I do have a habit of closing progs with the upper right hand button. I will try to apply some self control and see what happens however a 12 year habit is hard to change. I'll give it a try but surely a programme that catches a WM_DESTROY event enough to give you a Do you really want to close this programme box should also shut it down properly, also why didn't this happen in SuSE??? Let you know Nigel Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sylpheed looses its default settings
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 22:46:07 +0100 Nigel Wilkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 21:10:59 + Dick Gevers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I could imagine which I may have seen mentioned on the Sylpheed list is closing Sylpheed with the button in the upper right hand corner: this could perhaps give rise to some settings not being saved and preferable would be closing with [ Ctr + Q ] or [ Alt + F X ]. I do have a habit of closing progs with the upper right hand button. I will try to apply some self control and see what happens however a 12 year habit is hard to change. I'll give it a try but surely a programme that catches a WM_DESTROY event enough to give you a Do you really want to close this programme box should also shut it down properly, also why didn't this happen in SuSE??? I've been using s-c since at least 0.6.x and virtually always close it with the Close button... s-c handles this method quite well... heck, it even handles Ctl+c reasonably gracefully... this is not likely your problem... I would suggest running either strace sylpheed or sylpheed --debug to make sure all the .sylpheed/* files are not erroring... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sylpheed looses its default settings
On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 17:18:08 + Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:46:24 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trait. Every time the PC is booted when I open sylpheed for the first time it always complains that it can't find the address book and about ecery other time it makes me go through the full first time setup. This can only occur if something is altering your ~.sylpheed/ It is not the program itself which is causing this. Among the some of the possible causes of this occurring are, improper shutdown, failure to close sylpheed before shutdown, bad sectors on hd, improperly configured X-server, faulty power/connection. Run boot and shutdown in verbose mode, you might be able to spot the cause there. It might be best for you to install with an rpm built for mandrake. Charles has a sylpheed 9.6 rpm that he gracously made available to us: http://www.eslrahc.com/ (What's with the site bein all pretty, Charles? :) Well my build a page for me challenge was accepted by John Willby who graciously built and sent me the code this week which I happily uploaded today. Charles Looks very nice, Charles/John Very nice indeed. Lee -- User #223705 Linux Counter, http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Sylpheed looses its default settings
On Thu, 2003-10-09 at 21:33, Lee Wiggers wrote: On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 17:18:08 + Charles A Edwards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 9 Oct 2003 13:46:24 -0700 Eric Huff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: trait. Every time the PC is booted when I open sylpheed for the first time it always complains that it can't find the address book and about ecery other time it makes me go through the full first time setup. This can only occur if something is altering your ~.sylpheed/ It is not the program itself which is causing this. Among the some of the possible causes of this occurring are, improper shutdown, failure to close sylpheed before shutdown, bad sectors on hd, improperly configured X-server, faulty power/connection. Run boot and shutdown in verbose mode, you might be able to spot the cause there. It might be best for you to install with an rpm built for mandrake. Charles has a sylpheed 9.6 rpm that he gracously made available to us: http://www.eslrahc.com/ (What's with the site bein all pretty, Charles? :) Well my build a page for me challenge was accepted by John Willby who graciously built and sent me the code this week which I happily uploaded today. Charles Looks very nice, Charles/John Very nice indeed. Lee Very clean just wish it would fit on my laptops desktop. (1024x768 is my max) James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
