ISTR a workround for adding Leetkey to Thunderbird 17 was sent to the list. Am I dreaming?
If my memory is correct I can rootle through everything I have saved from ALUG on the old Eee.
If I am wrong, what is the last version in which Leetkey works? If I go onto the Mozilla website and install it, will it replace Mozilla 17, or install another one beside it?
On 11/01/13 23:42, Anthony Anson wrote:
ISTR a workround for adding Leetkey to Thunderbird 17 was sent to the list. Am I dreaming?
If my memory is correct I can rootle through everything I have saved from ALUG on the old Eee.
Dreaming! (at least I think so!). I've just searched my ALUG archive in TBird, not complete, but goes back to 2009, and I see only 8 messages about with "leet" in them, most in a thread saying what Leetkey is, and the rest saying that Leetkey won't work in TBird 3!
If I am wrong, what is the last version in which Leetkey works? If I go onto the Mozilla website and install it, will it replace Mozilla 17, or install another one beside it?
If you install Thunderbird again, it'll probably replace the existing version unless you do something to prevent that happening (I don't know what though!)
L37'5 7ry 7h15 7h3n!
OK. Download Leetkey plugin. Open it with an archive program. Extract install.rdf, then edit it. Look for the thunderbird section. look for something like max version 3.2pre. Replace this with 18.0 (or 19 or 20, whatever, bigger than your thunderbird version). Save it, put it back in the archive. Now install it in thunderbird. The Leetkey typing above was done using the plugin. I don't know if it will work fully. If you follow the above, basically you've adjusted the max version that it will refuse to install in. No guarantee that it will actually work properly though.
Good luck!
On 12/01/13 02:19, steve-ALUG@hst.me.uk wrote:
On 11/01/13 23:42, Anthony Anson wrote:
ISTR a workround for adding Leetkey to Thunderbird 17 was sent to the list. Am I dreaming?
If my memory is correct I can rootle through everything I have saved from ALUG on the old Eee.
Dreaming! (at least I think so!). I've just searched my ALUG archive in TBird, not complete, but goes back to 2009, and I see only 8 messages about with "leet" in them, most in a thread saying what Leetkey is, and the rest saying that Leetkey won't work in TBird 3!
Well, not dreaming, but unforgettory not working properly - Nev reminds me that the gen appeared in The Shed, and has kindly sent me a file which does the job.
If I am wrong, what is the last version in which Leetkey works? If I go onto the Mozilla website and install it, will it replace Mozilla 17, or install another one beside it?
If you install Thunderbird again, it'll probably replace the existing version unless you do something to prevent that happening (I don't know what though!)
I must say I dislike the current offering of Thunderbird.
L37'5 7ry 7h15 7h3n!
OK. Download Leetkey plugin. Open it with an archive program. Extract install.rdf, then edit it. Look for the thunderbird section. look for something like max version 3.2pre. Replace this with 18.0 (or 19 or 20, whatever, bigger than your thunderbird version). Save it, put it back in the archive. Now install it in thunderbird. The Leetkey typing above was done using the plugin. I don't know if it will work fully. If you follow the above, basically you've adjusted the max version that it will refuse to install in. No guarantee that it will actually work properly though.
Good luck!
Thanks - saved for archives.
On 12/01/13 12:07, Anthony Anson wrote:
I must say I dislike the current offering of Thunderbird.
I was somewhat put out t'otherday when checking leetkey versions to find that three new extensions* had installed themselves without my knowledge and which I would not want. Probably as a result of moving to 12.04 LTS.
None of them have a "remove" option** in the addon section but at least I have disabled them.
This Ubuntu is getting almost as bad as windoze for just assuming and doing things without asking.
Nev
* they are: EDS Contact Integration Global Menu Bar Integration Messaging Menu and Unity Launcher Integration.
** removed one using the synaptic package mangaler
This Ubuntu is getting almost as bad as windoze for just assuming and doing things without asking.
Nev
"doing things without asking" - you clearly have a magic touch with ubuntu!
In my case it seems unable to do things when i ask it to! I gave up with ubuntu in 2009 when it seemed almost impossible to set screen resolution. Xubuntu was my next step which i really liked - minimal approach which i added to instead of adding and removing with ubuntu. Thunar had a few features which weren't in ubuntu. The Bulk Rename i liked for all those photos; kRename was too fancy and didn't do the job as half as well.
The last straw (well two actually) with xubuntu for me was the bug that resulted in the generation of .goutputstream******* every time you logged in and the inclusion of development version Abiword ver 2.9.2 - stable version is 2.8.6. Why on earth put a test version in a release? As one of the developers said in their mailing list it's very buggy... so what on earth are ubuntu developers thinking of. I don't like Abiword that much but it is a bit more lightweight than LO-writer (which i've also discovered bugs in).
I've ditched the use of debian distros now and am trying out Fedora which considering it is a Red Hat test job seems to be remarkably stable (their quality control seems very good unlike ubuntu which just ships a release when the date arrives). The 'dependency hell' seems to have left rpm distros with the yum/yumex package management... but i think it's slower than apt but i can live with that.
james
On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 8:32 PM, James Freer jessejazza3.uk@gmail.com wrote:
This Ubuntu is getting almost as bad as windoze for just assuming and doing things without asking.
Nev
"doing things without asking" - you clearly have a magic touch with ubuntu!
In my case it seems unable to do things when i ask it to! I gave up with ubuntu in 2009 when it seemed almost impossible to set screen resolution. Xubuntu was my next step which i really liked - minimal approach which i added to instead of adding and removing with ubuntu. Thunar had a few features which weren't in ubuntu. The Bulk Rename i liked for all those photos; kRename was too fancy and didn't do the job as half as well.
The last straw (well two actually) with xubuntu for me was the bug that resulted in the generation of .goutputstream******* every time you logged in and the inclusion of development version Abiword ver 2.9.2 - stable version is 2.8.6. Why on earth put a test version in a release? As one of the developers said in their mailing list it's very buggy... so what on earth are ubuntu developers thinking of. I don't like Abiword that much but it is a bit more lightweight than LO-writer (which i've also discovered bugs in).
I've ditched the use of debian distros now and am trying out Fedora which considering it is a Red Hat test job seems to be remarkably stable (their quality control seems very good unlike ubuntu which just ships a release when the date arrives). The 'dependency hell' seems to have left rpm distros with the yum/yumex package management... but i think it's slower than apt but i can live with that.
james
Forgot to mention the last install of *buntu was "Precise" - last verison that was any good was Hardly Heroine.
james
On 12/01/13 20:32, James Freer wrote:
This Ubuntu is getting almost as bad as windoze for just assuming and doing things without asking.
Nev
"doing things without asking" - you clearly have a magic touch with ubuntu!
In my case it seems unable to do things when i ask it to! I gave up with ubuntu in 2009 when it seemed almost impossible to set screen resolution. Xubuntu was my next step which i really liked - minimal approach which i added to instead of adding and removing with ubuntu. Thunar had a few features which weren't in ubuntu. The Bulk Rename i liked for all those photos; kRename was too fancy and didn't do the job as half as well.
Irfanview under Wine or in Virtual Box
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I've ditched the use of debian distros now and am trying out Fedora which considering it is a Red Hat test job seems to be remarkably stable (their quality control seems very good unlike ubuntu which just ships a release when the date arrives). The 'dependency hell' seems to have left rpm distros with the yum/yumex package management... but i think it's slower than apt but i can live with that.
I couldn't get Red Hat to work in its earlier days - Linux FT worked well, but Lasermoon got taken over and FT was used as the basis for SuSI, which I didn't like. - SuSI, not the takeover...
On 12/01/13 22:08, Anthony Anson wrote:
On 12/01/13 20:32, James Freer wrote:
This Ubuntu is getting almost as bad as windoze for just assuming and doing things without asking.
Nev
"doing things without asking" - you clearly have a magic touch with ubuntu!
In my case it seems unable to do things when i ask it to! I gave up with ubuntu in 2009 when it seemed almost impossible to set screen resolution. Xubuntu was my next step which i really liked - minimal approach which i added to instead of adding and removing with ubuntu. Thunar had a few features which weren't in ubuntu. The Bulk Rename i liked for all those photos; kRename was too fancy and didn't do the job as half as well.
Irfanview under Wine or in Virtual Box
For renaming, I find PyRenamer works for me.
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