Can't change thunderbird's calender time format from am/pm to 24 hours
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to no avail. When I go to settings calendar there are just am/pm formats for daily / weekly showing(?) no 24 hours. I noticed though, that in settings - general I can't lastingly select a language for menus etc. the button is grey again after restart of thunderbird. In alternative languages I have first German and second English (US). Anybody with ideas?
Now you have to read this article carefully and do exactly what is says - like this utf8 bit, or at least provide some information as to what exactly do you do: how you set locale and how you check that it is present and set.
Distribution: openSuSE Tumbleweed-KDE, Mint 21, MX-21, Manjaro
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That is exactly the problem: I can't. Thunderbird reworked the German interface massively: There is e.g. no "Tools –> Options –> Advanced –> General" menu (or any translation), the whole menu structure is changed. I can't even find the about:config entry.
They reworked the interface, which undoubtedly sucks, but is not related to localisation. There is no tools-options in English 125 either, 24h however works. https://i.postimg.cc/d16r7gmb/Screen...522-141727.png
So what does it say when started from terminal - as this links tells?
Distribution: openSuSE Tumbleweed-KDE, Mint 21, MX-21, Manjaro
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I can see the "Tools" entry in the screenshot menu you posted. I don't have a counterpart in thunderbird here. Nor is the rest of the menu tree to be found.
I can see the "Tools" entry in the screenshot menu you posted. I don't have a counterpart in thunderbird here. Nor is the rest of the menu tree to be found.
Starting from terminal won't change anything but may tell you what's wrong. Does it print anything?
Result is:
Code:
me@ryzen:~> thunderbird
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
ATTENTION: default value of option mesa_glthread overridden by environment.
kf.i18n: KLocalizedString: Using an empty domain, fix the code. msgid: "Mozilla Firefox" msgid_plural: "" msgctxt: ""
kf.i18n: KLocalizedString: Using an empty domain, fix the code. msgid: "Mozilla Thunderbird" msgid_plural: "" msgctxt: ""
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