Questions tagged [lightning]
Lightning is a calendar extension for Mozilla Thunderbird.
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Lightning calendars appears, but all tasks and appointment are gone after profile import
I moved from Ubuntu 20 to 22. Thunderbird 115.8 profile zipped on Ubuntu 20. After installation (Ubuntu 22) I used Thunderbird's import tool: everything went well, but all of my calendars are blank. ...
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Some recurring Lightning entries are off by an hour next week
I just opened my calendar for a few weeks from now (Oct 30 - Nov 5), and some (but not all) of my recurring meetings from my Outlook calendar are off by an hour. My guess is that it has something to ...
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accept thunderbird invitation into evolution calendar
There are some annoyances I just put up with calendars in the linux environment such as that the Gnome calendar needs an evolution calendar backend and that when you 'accept' a calendar invitation in ...
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how can I get thunderbird's "current tasks" in evolution?
when using the Tasklist of thunderbird, there is a filter called "current Tasks", which shows task that are unfinished and have a start-date in the past (or no start-date at all).
Is there ...
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Lightning & nextcloud: e-mail sheduling invitations for meetings&tasks
I can sucsessfully link my nextcloud-calendars with my lightning (thunderbird-calendar).
However, the integration with an e-mail address does not work properly.
When I create an event, and I want to ...
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Thunderbird Lightning: How to edit categories?
To edit the categories in the thunderbird lightning calendar could go to Tools -> Options -> Lightning -> Categories, but in the current version (60.3) this doesn't seem to be possible ...
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Graphic elements displayed incorrectly after upgrade to Xubuntu 18.04.2 LTS
Just did upgrade Xubuntu 16.04 LTS to 18.04.2 LTS with help from a friend via terminal;
my reason was to be able to use my updated LinHabu 19 (accounting software) which needs at least 16.01 and was ...
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How to go downgrade Thunderbird to older version in 18.04?,
My indispensable addons don't work in Thunderbird 60.x (Japanese popup readers rikaichan, rikaichamp, yomichan, etc.) nor in 52.x (lightning calendar) so I want to downgrade to an even older version ...
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Install Thunderbird 52.0 manually and correct
Ubuntu 18.04 - I'm rather new to Ubuntu.
I want to use Thunderbird with 'Lightning'.
I installed Thunderbird via the 'Ubuntu Software' - Thunderbird 60.3.0.
In the Add-ons Manager of Thunderbird it ...
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Which is the proper way to add Lightning calendar to Thunderbird (60+)?
A recent update of Thunderbird in Ubuntu (version 60.2.1) broke the Lightning calendar installed as add-on. See here. Mozilla provides Lightning as bundled in the last versions, but Ubuntu (and Debian?...
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Latest update to Thunderbird 60.2.1 on 18.04 - Lightning calendar missing
After completing an Ubuntu automatic software update (15 Oct 2018) that included Thunderbird 60.2.1 the Lightning calendar is now missing.
When I click on Thunderbird's Add-On tab to see if there's ...
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Google calendar reminders not imported in thunderbird
I have thunderbird with the lightning and the google calendar extension. It works almost perfect, which means that the tasks and events are imported correctly, the calendars synchronizes properly and ...
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Thunderbird: I accept an invitation, but the sender does not see it
I receive an invitation to an event via email.
I use thunderbird and accept the invitation.
I use tine20 for my calendar.
I can see the event in my calendar.
But the sender does not see that I ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 : how to use Lightning (Thunderbird calendar) in place of Gnome agenda?
Coming from Ubuntu 16.04, I just installed Ubuntu 18.04 and appreciate a lot of Gnome features. It is very well polished...
I have a few calendars defined in Lightning (a Thunderbird extension) which ...
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Thunderbird Lightning: Show only the future days
I just want to see the next days in thunderbird/lightning.
I could not find a configuration option to show the calendar with only the next days ahead.
I made a big red cross over the days I don't ...
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Lightning calendar won't print
I wish to print a four week range of my Lightning calendar.
The print dialogue screen comes up, and I can enter the title, and all the required details, but the preview pane on the right of the ...
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Thunderbird in Ubuntu 16.04: Calendar view disabled?
I'm running a clean install of Ubuntu 16.04 and I'm using the version of Thunderbird that came with it, plus updates (version 45.5.1). I've installed Lightning (4.7.4), which works, and I've set up ...
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How to turn off Thunderbird message "Thunderbird now has calendaring functionality..."
Since installing Ubuntu Mate 16.10, I've been getting the following message at the bottom of Thunderbird's window: "Thunderbird now contains calendaring functionality by integrating the Lightning ...
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Fixing ics calendar network subscriptions w/ Thunderbird 38.3. and Lightning 4.0.3
This morning at boot time, TB+Lightning woke up to to zero calendar instead of its regular 2, on my Ubuntu 14.04.3 box.
The 2 calendar -.ics files are located on an NTFS-3g partition different from ...
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Thunderbird: Lightning calendar extension not translated
I'm using Mozilla's Thunderbird with thunderbird-locale-de and xul-ext-lightning for calendaring.
Unfortunately, the lightning extension seems not to be translated - while the rest of thunderbird is.
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Lightning Extension Not Showing Reminders When Opening Thunderbird
When I first began using the Lightning calendar extension for TBird it used to show my reminders for events that were due each time I launched TBird if they were due to alarm. Even if I snoozed an ...
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Google provider in Thunderbid with Lightning is not working
Ever since Thunderbird+Lightning offers immediate bilinear contact with Google Calendar, I have been using it. But there seems to be a problem in my Ubuntu 14.04 installation: Google provider is not ...
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Lightning in Thunderbird is not usable
I'm using Lightning 3.3.3 in Thunderbird 31.4.0 on Ubuntu 14.10. Because the Mozilla support sites seem little frustrating to me, I'm asking about it here.
But it seems that Lightning isn't working ...
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Installing Lightning Add-On on Thunderbird
I attempted to install The Lightning plugin for Thunderbird. I do this by going to Tools -> Add-ons. I search for Lightning and click "Add to Thunderbird". Then I get a popup asking me if I want to ...
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14.04: Force a Thunderbird Lightning Reminder to Topmost Window
My reminders for Thunderbird's Lightning calendar add on pop up behind the current window I am focused on (such as a web browser). This makes it very difficult to notice a reminder is happening, ...
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Thunderbird with Lightning and Google provider no longer working?
I'm using Thunderbird 31.1.12, Lightning 3.3.1 with Provider for Google Calendar 1.0.1 in Ubuntu 14.04
When I try to add my google calendars, I select 'Create new calendar'> 'On my Network'> and ...
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Duplicate events on Thunderbird Lightning
It seems that Google have stepped up security and provider for Google Calendar requires a popup authentication like "Online Accounts".
As soon as I did authorise the calendar, I ended up with ...
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Importing calendar events to Thunderbird in Ubuntu 12.04
In Thunderbird (1:24.6.0 + build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) with the Lightning add-on (xul-ext-lightning 1:24.6.0+build1-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) I need to import calendar events (and I'll ask about contacts and ...
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Sogo Connector Addon not working
I just downloaded the sogo connector from http://www.sogo.nu/downloads/frontends.html to sync owncloud contacts with Thunderbird 24.6.0.
According to the documentation this should enable the option "...
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How to restore missing calendar data from Lightning/Thunderbird
Today out of nowhere all my events and tasks disappeared from my Thunderbird. However, I have a full backup of .thunderbird folder.
How can I restore my calendar data?
I reverted these files to ...
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My Thunderbird calendar contents have disappeared. How can I restore them?
The contents of the calendar have all disappeared, the titles are still there but no information is present. How can I get it back or is it lost for ever?
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How does the drop-down calendar in the panel work? New event button does not do anything
I just found out that in 13.10 there's an "add event" button in the calendar that drops down from the panel. Yet i couldn't figure out how to make it work?
For me clicking it does nothing. Does it ...
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Ubuntu 13.04: Synchronizing an iPhone's contacts and calendar without Ubuntu One [closed]
What is the best solution to synchronize the contacts and calendar of an iPhone with your local Ubuntu installation?
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Thunderbird with its Lightning extension currently seems to be the best ...
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how to make compiz wobbly effect ignore a single window?
I have the reminders/alerts popup window with Thunderbird/lightning calendar, that I need to avoid it being managed by wobbly compiz effect, because I already set another rule to make it have minimal ...
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Lightning 1.8 in Thunderbird 16.0.2 doesn't work under Ubuntu 12.10
I just had to redo my laptop and choose Ubuntu 12.10 (had 12.04 before). Now I encounter a problem with Lightning, the calendar app for Thunderbird.
My Thunderbird is of version 16.0.2 and I ...
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What is the correct way to sync Thunderbird + Lightning
I already tried to manually copy and the paste the profile folder from one instance to another, but the Lightning extension is not added when doing this and thus my tasks and events can't be synced.
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Thunderbird 16 and Lightning
I have just upgraded from Thunderbird 15 to 16 and then found that Lightning 1.7 is not compatible with Thunderbird 16, leaving me without a calendar.
What are my options?
Should I try and go back ...
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How to prevent Thunderbird from updating automatically?
today at startup my Tb (not precisely sure what version it was) asked if it should check compatibility of the lightning calendar addon. That is to say it displayed in a list windows the only item: ...
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Is the Lightning 1.7 calendar for Thunderbird not supported on 10.04?
This page makes me think that Lightning 1.7 is now unsupported on Ubuntu Lucid, but I couldn't find any official announce about it... Moreover, I can't find a way to a question to the team :( So, is ...
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How do I roll back to the shipped version of Thunderbird?
I was using thunderbird v15.0 on ubuntu 12.04 LTS till now, and have the lightning extension installed to manage calendar within thunderbird application. everything was working fine until i decided to ...
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Is it possible to share an Exchange calendar with another outlook user using Thunderbird/Lightning? If so, how?
I am not on a Windows machine and cannot access outlook other than outlook.companyname.com. I have my exchange email set up through Thunderbird/Lightning AND synced my exchange calendar.
How can I ...
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How to change what program Calenders are opened in
I was wondering... I have the Lightning plugin installed on Thunderbird, and I was wondering if I could have Calenders automatically opened in Thunderbird/lightning, instead of Gedit?
The only reason ...
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Launching Lightning from command line?
Is there a command that allows me to launch Thunderbird's Lightning from command line? I want to add a command to the Thunderbird launcher that allows me to open to a Lightning page.
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How do I downgrade Thunderbird (or get a working version of Lightning)
Could somebody please tell me how to roll Thunderbird back to 11.x, or get a working version of Lightning (which claims it is incompatible with 12.0). I'm currently not able to view my calendar :(
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How can I show Thunderbird Lightning tasks and events in the Gnome Clock applet?
We used to have this functionality with Evolution: clicking on the date-time in the gnome panel would show a list of events/tasks/appointments from the Evolution Calendar. As an interesting side ...
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Why do Thunderbird Lightning notifications come late?
It seems that the Thunderbird integration to Ubuntu is taking some time, and I'm okay with that, I have workarounds for most things like keeping Thunderbird open in the notification area, but there is ...
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How do I integrate Lightning with the messaging menu? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why are Thunderbird-Lightning events not showing in Unity panel calendar?
Is there any way to integrate the events on lightning calendar with the the unity calendar section?
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Lightning is not compatible with Thunderbird 7.0.1
I reinstalled Ubuntu 11.10 the other day and now when I try to install the Lightning extension in Thunderbird it states: Lightning is not compatible with Thunderbird 7.0.1.
As extra information ...
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How do I set Lightning as the default calendar app?
I want to set Thunderbird's calendar extension, Lightning, as the default calendar app. Is this possible?
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How can I use Lighting as calendar app with Gnome 3 Shell? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to change Gnome Shell calendar default application?
How can I use Lighting as default instead the already removed Evolution calendar app with Gnome 3 Shell? I am on 11.10/...