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The openSUSE GNOME Tips page is a one-stop location for the collected wisdoms of the openSUSE GNOME user community. These tips will help you to maximise your user experience and mastery on the GNOME desktop from power browsing in Nautilus to secure instant messaging with Pidgin. Please feel free to share your pearls of wisdom and add your own tip categories. But most of all, enjoy this resource and help your GNOME fly!

Applications

Thunderbird

Installing 64-bit Lightning Plugin

The 64-bit Lightning (Calendering) Application is not readily available from the Mozilla Addins page. To get this up and running with Thunderbird on your openSUSE 64-bit system you'll need to download and install the plugin a little more manually than is usual for Mozilla plugins. Here's how you do it..

1. Navigate to [Mozilla Releases and locate the latest version. As of this wiki entry, it's version 0.9
2. With the lightning XPI file downloaded, launch Thunderbird
3. Select the Addons menu options from the Tools menu
4. In the dialog that appears, press the Install... button and navigate to the plugin you just dowloaded, pressing the Open... button when you've found it.
5. In the Software Installation dialog that now appears, simple press the Install Now... button
6. Your Lightning calendaring plugin has now been installed. Enjoy!

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