Daniel wrote:
I dual boot this HP 6730b Laptop with both Windows 7 and Mageia Linux,
as shown i8n my sig file, and share the one SeaMonkey 2.49.1 profile
which is situated on one of my Win7 partitions. Recently I have added
Lightning (getting old ... memory failing ;-( or is my life getting
busier?? ;-) ) to both OS's SeaMonkey profiles.
I originally installed it to Win7 SM and it appeared in the Mail & News
Screen and I added several dates. It didn't display or remind me of any
dates that I had entered (but I'll try to sort that by posting to the
m.s.calendar newsgroup).
What I want to know here is ... it seems, each time I switch between
Win7 and MGALinux, I'm losing the Lightning display in SM's M & N
screen. Is this because I'm setting up SM/Lightning to function in one
OS and then when I change OS's, it forgets (for some reason) that it had
had Lightning installed, requiring a re-installation again and again and
again??
Is there someone out there who uses Lightning on several different OS's
that might be able to sort me out??
I'm not sure if it's still the case, but at one time parts of the
Lightning were binary components, compiled for a specific OS. You'd need
to install the Windows build of Lightning in the SeaMonkey profile used
on Windows, and the Linux build of Lightning in the SeaMonkey profile
used on Linux. The same build wouldn't work on both. There are certainly
still different downloads of Lightning for Windows and Linux. Even if
there are no longer binary components, there may be other things which
prevent the same build from working in both OSs.
While sharing a single profile between Windows and Linux installs might
seem to work most of the time, as far as I'm aware that's not actually
supported and can (as you've discovered) cause some issues. Another
potential source of problems is that various filesystem paths stored in
the profile are different on the two OSs, although from posts here it
seems that doesn't generally cause noticeable problems in practice.
In short, I think the problem is with neither the OS nor SeaMonkey, but
with your configuration (attempting to share a single profile between
the two OSs).
--
Mark.
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