[sylpheed:33367] Re: Desperate - Moving to new distro

[John Jason Jordan]

On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:56:47 +0200
Einar Lielmanis <einars at gmail.com> dijo:

> Try running sylpheed from the terminal and looking if there is any
> relevant output -- maybe you've got problems with permissions under
> ~/.sylpheed (or maybe it's searching for the configuration under
> ~/.sylpheed-2.0 instead of .sylpheed).

Thanks for the replies.

I must apologize - I said the folder from my old disk was .sylpheed,
but it is .sylpheed-2.0. I was having a blond moment.

When I run it from the command line I get only one error message:

(sylpheed 6839): Gtk warning**: GtkSpinButton: Setting an adjustment
with non-zero page size is deprecated

I doubt that has anything to do with the problem.

Since I first posted about the problem I have discovered a problem with
Firefox. As with Sylpheed, I copied my ~/.mozilla folder from the old
hard disk. Now I get an error message that Firefox is already running.
Google tells me that this is cause by not being able to find its
~/.mozilla folder. Google further suggests that it is a
permissions/ownership issue.

On my old computer I was jjj of the group jjj. OpenSuse set me up as
jjj of the group users. So I did "chown -R
jjj:users /home/jjj/.sylpheed-2.0." Unfortunately, it did not resolve
the problem. I know little about how permissions and ownerships work. 

There is one other issue. On my old disk the ~/.sylpheed-2.0 folder had
a big padlock on it when viewed in Nautilus and I could not copy it to
the new hard disk. From the command line I did chmod 777 on the folder
and then I was able to copy it to the new hard drive.

I need to figure nout nhow to get sylpheed to see it.

Pardon the typing. I hate the keyboard on this computer.