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In most cases it is sufficient to apply minor changes to a standard system | In most cases it is sufficient to apply minor changes to a standard system | ||
to make it work as intended. Also, please, keep in mind to apply changes | to make it work as intended. | ||
with minimum side effects, for example by making them optable. | |||
Also, please, keep in mind to apply changes with minimum side effects, | |||
for example by making them optable. | |||
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(e.g. <tt>/usr/lib64/thunderbird/thunderbird.sh</tt>). | (e.g. <tt>/usr/lib64/thunderbird/thunderbird.sh</tt>). | ||
Adding the following lines near the top of the file: | |||
# read customized system environment | # read customized system environment |
Revision as of 14:05, 22 July 2013
This page will show you how to customize certain aspects of a Linux system, be it a desktop or a server.
In most cases it is sufficient to apply minor changes to a standard system to make it work as intended.
Also, please, keep in mind to apply changes with minimum side effects, for example by making them optable.
Thunderbird
Custom / 24 Hour Time Format for Lightning
A default lightning installation usually comes with US type date time representation.
To make lightning have it's default date time representation changed environmental variables may be set accordingly.
One way to accomplish this by keeping the goals described above results in a minor modification to the thunderbird executable main script (e.g. /usr/lib64/thunderbird/thunderbird.sh).
Adding the following lines near the top of the file:
# read customized system environment sys_config="/etc/sysconfig/$MOZ_APPNAME" [ -f "$sys_config" ] && . $sys_config usr_config="$HOME/.$MOZ_APPNAME/.sysconfig" [ -f "$usr_config" ] && . $usr_config
by adding this patch:
*** /usr/lib64/thunderbird/thunderbird.sh.orig Wed Jun 26 16:02:55 2013 --- /usr/lib64/thunderbird/thunderbird.sh Mon Jul 22 12:37:35 2013 *************** *** 59,64 **** --- 59,70 ---- MOZ_APPNAME="thunderbird" MOZ_PROGRAM="$MOZ_DIST_LIB/$MOZ_APPNAME-bin" + # read customized system environment + sys_config="/etc/sysconfig/$MOZ_APPNAME" + [ -f "$sys_config" ] && . $sys_config + usr_config="$HOME/.$MOZ_APPNAME/.sysconfig" + [ -f "$usr_config" ] && . $usr_config + MOZ_APP_LAUNCHER="$MOZ_DIST_LIB/$MOZ_APPNAME.sh" if [ "$0" = "$MOZ_APP_LAUNCHER" ]; then [ -h "/usr/bin/$MOZ_APPNAME" ] && \
will allow to read in no, user specific or system wide thunderbird related environmental settings.
A user willing to change her thunderbird's and thus her lightning's date time representation to a 24 hour scheme then would just have to place the following lines in a file named .thunderbird/.sysconfig in her home directory:
LC_TIME=de_DE export LC_TIME