Customizing Linux Systems
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, ie. by makin them optable.
Thunderbird
Custom / 24 Hour Time Format for Lightning
A default lightning installation usually comes with US type date time representation, which looks rather strange to Europeans.
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 minorm odififactio to the thunderbird executable main script (eg./usr/lib64/hunderbird/thunderbird.sh).
Using the follwing 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
will allow to read in no, user specific or system wide thunderbid related environmental settings.
A user willing to change her thunderbird's and resp. her lightning's date time representation to a 24 h scheme a would place the following lines in a file named .thunderbird/.sysconfig in her home directory.