Thunderbird + Mozilla Suite

[Duane Whitty]

Andrey V. Semyonov wrote:
> Duane Whitty wrote:
>>> Strange things... When launched from xterm (or directly from my WM's 
>>> button) /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla starts mozilla binary normally.
>>>
>>> But after such a reconfiguration of TB when I try to open any link 
>>> in TB it prints "/usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla: Cannot find mozilla binary 
>>> executable. Exiting." into terminal from X is launched.
>>> _______________________________________________
>> I am not sure why it is doing that.  Please, do not take offense but 
>> have you checked
>> to make sure you did not make any typographical mistakes.
>> Another point to consider is that /usr/X11R6/bin/mozilla is probably 
>> not the actual mozilla
>> binary but rather a shell script to start the browser.  Maybe you can 
>> find out what the actual
>> binary is called.  It is probably similar to mozilla-bin, moz-bin, 
>> etc.  Actually it will be mentioned
>> in the script but beware though that calling it directly may not work.
> Yes, that's a script. And a strange bug was actually in it. I've 
> commented out some checks in it and now it works fine. So, thanks a 
> lot for help.
>
>> (Aside:  I thought the mozilla-suite built in email program was 
>> essentially thunderbird?
>> I hope I was correct when I assumed you were using mozilla and not 
>> firefox?)
>
> No, Mozilla Suit's mail programm is named 'mozilla-mail'. It's heir by 
> some shared code is Thunderbird (that's already explained yesterday). 
> Thunderbird's feature of RSS-reading is the most necessary feature 
> that caused me to use it (mozilla-mail can't read RSS-feeds). But as I 
> understand, Thunderbird is mostly compat-ed to Firefox and some kind 
> of moved away from Mozilla Suite project. That's why we have to do 
> tricks to make these same-family projects do well together now.
> _______________________________________________
>
Thanks for the follow up and for the clarification regarding 
Mozilla-mail and Thunderbird.

--Duane