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

[甘露(Gan Lu)]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 12:12 AM, 甘露(Gan Lu) <rhythm.gan at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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;
Sorry, it should be "Exec=/home/ganlu/Downloads/firefox/firefox %u -P test"
>
>>
>> Make a new profile to your desired location and move your old profile to the
>> new one ;)