On Thu Feb09'23 11:16:04AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
From: Michael Hennebry <hennebry(a)web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu>
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 11:16:04 -0600 (CST)
To: Tim via users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
CC: Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au>
Reply-To: Community support for Fedora users <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org>
Subject: Re: Adobe Acrobat Can't Find the pdf File When Trying to Display
an Email Attachment in Thunderbird Daily
Try running Thunderbird under strace.
It can be told to record only open calls.
To get the same environment,
you might put something like this in the /usr/bin directory:
file pigeon:
#!/usr/bin/sh
exec strace -o /tmp/strace.out trace=%file thunderbird $*
Tweaks by the better-informed are welcome,
e.g. does $* need "quotes"?
BTW suggesting that OP use another pdf reader
or save the file first does not really help.
He already knows how to do that.
Such suggestions are basically telling him to give up.
A friend of mine, whenever I have any trouble at all with my computer,
suggests I get a Mac. I find it annoying.
Color me unimpressed with your somewhat-contrived equivalence. We have here a
OSS-based-linux distribution mailing list, and there is nothing unusual with us providing
equivalent and helpful OSS solutions which we have far more experience with. That is
different from asking someone to go buy another computer that hides the problems, and
gives the user a false sense of security.
What is annoying is the OP ignoring something as simple as a misnamed piece of software,
and continuing to use it for whatever reason, even when he claims to have always thought
it was something else. Beyond the name, he could have learnt about other software which
would have been easier to use, and does not come with all sorts of restrictions.
Ranjan