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Ximi1970 / systray-x

SysTray-X: A system tray extension for Thunderbird. Needs both the addon AND the companion app installed to work. Will not work with TB flatpaks or snaps.
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Request support for MX Linux [Based on Debian Stable] #61

Closed LinuxPanda closed 3 years ago

LinuxPanda commented 3 years ago 
○ → sudo apt install systray-x-minimal 
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 systray-x-minimal : Depends: thunderbird (<= 1:84) but 2:68.12.0-1mx19+1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
○ → apt policy thunderbird 
thunderbird:
  Installed: 2:68.12.0-1mx19+1
  Candidate: 2:68.12.0-1mx19+1
  Version table:
 *** 2:68.12.0-1mx19+1 500
        500 https://mirror.0x.sg/mx-workspace/mx/repo buster/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:78.5.0-1~deb10u1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian-security buster/updates/main amd64 Packages
     1:68.12.0-1~deb10u1 500
        500 http://mirror.0x.sg/debian buster/main amd64 Packages

Although MX Linux is based on Debian stable, they use their own repo for some packages and Thunderbird is one of them. So request to add support for MX Linux package naming scheme in the Debian OBS repo itself if possible or maybe a separate repo for MX Linux. Thanks.

Ximi1970 commented 3 years ago

I tried several options to add the new epoch '2' without breaking the version limits.
It seems just impossible to do...
If I just cap my package with 2:84 as maximal version allowed, it is also allowing 1:100.x.x. And that is just a bad idea.
After a lot of googling, I cannot find an option to limit the version to allow multiple ranges in different epochs like this:
thunderbird (>= 0:68), thunderbird (<= 0:84) and
thunderbird (>= 1:68), thunderbird (<= 1:84) and thunderbird (>= 2:68), thunderbird (<= 2:84)

Also the build service of opensuse does not contain MX linux as distribution so I also cannot build a special package for MX. I am afraid that you are stuck with the installer scripts.

Will keep looking out for a solution.

Ximi1970 commented 3 years ago

Maybe you could try install the debian thunderbird version instead of the MX one.

LinuxPanda commented 3 years ago

Maybe you could try install the debian thunderbird version instead of the MX one.

Yes, that would work with apt pinning but may cause issues as they have their own apt pinning.

Maybe Ill ask the MX devs itself if its possible to add this package to their repo. Thanks.

Ximi1970 commented 3 years ago

The only thing you have to do is:

sudo apt install thunderbird=1:78.5.0-1~deb10u1 wget -q https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Ximi1970:/Mozilla:/Add-ons/Debian_10/Release.key sudo apt-key add Release.key sudo bash -c 'echo "deb https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/Ximi1970:/Mozilla:/Add-ons/Debian_10 ./" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/systray-x.list' sudo apt update sudo apt install systray-x-minimal

The systray-x package will prevent any upgrade of thunderbird until I update the systray-x package to allow the new TB version.

GeorgeKaragiannis commented 3 years ago

It works perfectly! I send an email to myself and it works. But I have a problem which it doesn't have to do with the functionality. Why is there this ugly icon with the number "78" on the panel instead of thunderbird icon? Look my screenshot. Screeshot here!

Ximi1970 commented 3 years ago

You got 1782 unread mails....Why did you install this add-on???

The main / most important thing this add-on does is displaying the number of unread mails in a tray icon....

Ximi1970 commented 3 years ago

If you do not want the number just switch it off in the preferences and or change the icon you want.

GeorgeKaragiannis commented 3 years ago

@Ximi1970 OK, I found it and it looks good. The reason I installed it is because I want to take notifications when somebody sends me an email without having thunderbird open. I'm not interested to say to me how many unread email I have.

One final question. Let's say someone has many accounts (like me); Whose account this program will show the unread emails? The first, the second, the third...?

Ximi1970 commented 3 years ago

You can select the accounts in the add-on preferences. Thunderbird -> Tools menu -> Addons menu entry -> Systray-x -> Click the tripple dots "..." to get the menu -> Preferences menu entry -> Mail tab -> Accounts

Select the accounts / folders you want to check and click save. If you never pressed save the addon will only check the inboxes of all the accounts.

Be aware that that menu is not available in the companion app / icon in the taskbar due to privacy concerns.