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[Nio Wiklund <nio.wiklund@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2013-09-23 11:51, Lars Noodén wrote:
> On 09/23/2013 12:47 PM, Nio Wiklund wrote:
>> On 2013-09-21 18:02, Lars Noodén wrote:> On 09/20/2013 09:57 AM, Nio 
>> Wiklund wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> In my production machine I run Ubuntu with lubuntu-desktop
>>>>
>>>> After the update yesterday (Sept 19 2013). I have a problem with
>> Thunderbird
>>>>
>>>> The window to write letters (or reply to letters) is borked.
>>>> There is no cursor, and although it is focused, the active window
>>>> is still the main Thunderbird window, so I can't write anything.
>>>> This happens after running Thunderbird for a while, and I have to
>>>> close and re-open Thunderbird to be able to write a letter
>>>> again.
>>>
>>> I've been looking today and yesterday, leaving drafts open and
>>> such, but am unable to reproduce the error you describe.  I've got
>>> Thunderbird 24.0 also but on AMD64.
>>>
>>> Installed: 1:24.0+build1-0ubuntu1
>>>
>>> Regards, /Lars
>>>
>> Hi Lars,
>>
>> I get this problem frequently. Today it would not work after restart
>> of the program. Not even after reboot of the system.
>>
>> What I tried to do is to 'Reply to all'. Then I tried many things,
>> and found that I could start a normal original letter (no reply, no
>> forward), and the cursor was active in its window. Then directly
>> afterwards, I could start a 'Reply to all' window and the cursor was
>> there and I could write the reply.
>>
>> But I need to restart Thunderbird to get a cursor in the editing
>> window for a normal original letter.
>>
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/thunderbird/+bug/1228002
>>
>> Best regards Nio
>>
> Have you tried with a new, clean profile?
> I've had some different problems in the past, twice if I recall
> correctly.  They were fixed by starting a new profile.  It was a bit of
> a pain to export / import all the customizations but it worked.
> 
> Regards,
> /Lars
> 

Thanks for the tip Lars,

If this is not solved by an update soon, I probably have to do that.

Best regards
Nio