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Integrate Thunderbird on Elementary OS Loki

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Sandeep Bhardwaj

Install Thunderbird using below command.

sandeep@koko:~$ sudo apt install thunderbird 

then install

sandeep@koko:~$ sudo apt install thunderbird-gnome-support  ttf-lyx

After successful installation of thunderbird install below add-ons to make Thunderbird more integrated and beautiful.

Add-ons

  1. GNotifier :- GNotifier integrates thunderbird's notifications with the native notification system.

  2. MinimizeToTray revived :- Minimizes windows into the system trayMinTrayR.

  3. Stylish :- Restyle the thunderbird css with Stylish, a user styles manager. and then install the below theme.

Change in thunderbird config

Thunderbird Preferences > Advanced > General > Config Editor then set mail.tabs.autoHide to true.

Missing Dropbox icons on Elementary OS Loki

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Sandeep Bhardwaj

After installing the Dropbox on latest Elementary OS Loki icons of dropbox is missing in wingpanel.

For fixing this issue you just need modify dropbox.desktop file.Open the dropbox.desktop file in your favourite editor.

sandeep@koko:~$ sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/dropbox.desktop 

then replace the line with Exec with below line and then restart you machine.

Exec=env XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=Unity QT_STYLE_OVERRIDE='' dropbox start -i

This solution worked for me and i hope it will work for you as well.

Enable minimize button in Google chrome on Elementary OS

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Sandeep Bhardwaj

By default Google chrome do not have minimize button on Elementary OS and we can't enable it by using Elementary tweak tool. But we can make it enable by modifying the gConfigurations. Just type the below line in terminal and its done.

gconftool-2 --set /apps/metacity/general/button_layout --type string ":minimize:maximize:close"

Enable laptop touch-pad on Elementary OS Freya

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Yesterday, i installed fresh copy of Elementary OS Freya on my Samsung laptop. But after installing i faced a weired problem that my touch-pad of laptop not working but every thing just working fine with external mouse.

So, i search on Google and find out so many solution but only the below one works for me.


sudo add-apt-repository ppa:hanipouspilot/focaltech-dkms
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install focaltech-dkms
sudo modprobe -r psmouse
sudo modprobe psmouse

I hope this will work for you as well if you are also facing the same issue.

To make it permanent create a file with below command you can use your favorite editor.

sudo gedit /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf

add this line to file options psmouse proto=imps and save the changes.