lemmyreader@lemmy.ml to Open Source@lemmy.mlEnglish · 7 months agoTeam Thunderbird Answers Your Most Frequently Asked Questionsblog.thunderbird.netexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1113arrow-down12
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minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20·edit-27 months agoI just want a ‘minimize to tray’ ‘close to tray’ option on desktop, especially with the kdocker workaround not working on wayland. I can’t believe thunderbird still doesn’t have this feature natively.
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-27 months agogood point, I was going to months ago, but I was too lazy to migrate the accounts and forgot it existed until now
minus-squareDave@lemmy.nzlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 months agoHave a look at migration. I think you might be able to copy data from some folder to an equivalent one in Betterbird to transfer your accounts across.
minus-squareEager Eagle@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 months agoyeah, I just tried copying ~/.thunderbird, renamed the profile directory with the name betterbird created on startup and it worked. They implement “minimize to tray”, but with the add-on “Minimize on close” I now have a “close to tray” behavior.
I just want a
‘minimize to tray’‘close to tray’ option on desktop, especially with the kdocker workaround not working on wayland.I can’t believe thunderbird still doesn’t have this feature natively.
Does Betterbird do it to your liking?
good point, I was going to months ago, but I was too lazy to migrate the accounts and forgot it existed until now
Have a look at migration. I think you might be able to copy data from some folder to an equivalent one in Betterbird to transfer your accounts across.
yeah, I just tried copying
~/.thunderbird
, renamed the profile directory with the name betterbird created on startup and it worked.They implement “minimize to tray”, but with the add-on “Minimize on close” I now have a “close to tray” behavior.
Great that you got it working!