[arch-general] How can I change thunderbird profile dir form .thunderbird to .mozilla/thunderbird?

[甘露(Gan Lu)]

On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 11:13 PM, Axilleas Pi <axilleaspi at ymail.com> wrote:
> On 03/11/2012 04:10 AM, 郑文辉(Techlive Zheng) wrote:
>>
>> Is there any compile flag or something I could alter? I think that
>> would be easy to do. I just want to clean my home folder, backup
>> firefox and thunderbird data. I only want to backup a .mozilla
>> directory and not .mozilla and .thunderbird them two.
>>
>> So,anyone knows?
>>
>> Besides, I don't want to symlink .mozilla/thunderbird to .thunderbird,
>> that won't solve the problem, I am willing to recomplie the whole
>> thunderbird if necessary.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Techlive Zheng
>
> Use
>
> thunderbird --profilemanager
Yes, thunderbird -P, you can even make a desktop file for it,
something like (it's my Aurora):
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Aurora
GenericName=Web Browser
Exec=/home/ganlu/Downloads/firefox/firefox %u
Icon=/home/ganlu/Downloads/firefox/icons/mozicon128.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
StartupNotify=true
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;

>
> Make a new profile to your desired location and move your old profile to the
> new one ;)