[Users] Upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 and now cannot start claws-mail.

[Rolf Turner]

On Thu, 29 Sep 2022 16:46:50 +0100
MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Sep 2022 18:13:25 +1300
> Rolf Turner <r.turner at auckland.ac.nz> wrote:
> 
> > I *really* don't understand this; as far as I can make out, clicking
> > on the icon simply invokes the command "claws-mail %u".  (See the
> > attached screenshot "launcherProperties.png".)  So why should the
> > one thing work when the other doesn't?  
> 
> My first guess would be that you have two copies of claws-mail
> installed somehow and that the icon is launching one of them, whereas
> the command line is trying to launch the other.

Don't think so.  If I do "whereis claws-mail" I get

> claws-mail: /usr/bin/claws-mail /usr/share/man/man1/claws-mail.1.gz


> You can ask the
> command-line which it is trying to run with the command "which", such
> as:
> 
> mjr at bletchley:~$ which claws-mail
> /usr/bin/claws-mail

I get /usr/bin/claws-mail when I do "which claws-mail".
> 
> If that isn't /usr/bin/claws-mail then it's not using the packaged
> version and you can start to investigate why (probably something
> earlier in your command-line search PATH which isn't in the main
> session PATH, possibly set by a .profile, .bash_profile or .bashrc
> script file).
> 
> If it is, and the file mentioned by Brad

This file (i.e. ~/.local/share/applications/claws-mail.desktop) does
not exist.

> (or its equivalent on your
> desktop) also points to that, then I'd try his suggestion of a
> different GTK theme being applied to command-line programs.

I don't understand what I should "try".  Can you give me a *recipe*?

> Can you
> launch gedit or mousepad from the command line OK? From the menus or
> icons?

Interesting.  When I invoke gedit from the command line I get
essentially the same plethora of error messages that I get from
trying to invoke claws-mail from the command line. But when I
use a point-and-click approach, gedit seems to work just fine.

Can anyone explain to me, in simple terms, what is going on?

> Hope that helps.

It may produce some insight.  We'll see.

Thanks.

cheers,

Rolf

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