universal home partition??

[Brian Wootton]

On 07/09/10 01:53, kubuntu-users-request at lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
>> >  The only question I now have is how to have a common email program for
>> >  all the distros. I use Thunderbird and of course want to only have one
>> >  email repository. How do I do that?
>> >  Errol
>>      
> I think you can tell tbird to open a profile located somewhere outside the
> default location, but someone with it installed might know better
>
>
> clay
>
>    
You're right Clay, but some time ago I did it the following way bcause I
kept getting confused as to which distro I was currently working in.

determine which you want to be the "master distro" for thunderbird

then, in slave 1
     mv /home/"user"/.thunderbird /home/"user"/.thunderbird.orig(say)
in "master distro"
  ln -s /home/"user"/.thunderbird "slave 1" /home/"user"/.thunderbird

and repeat for slave 2, 3, etc distros

The above doesn't look too clear even to me, my old eyes miss spaces
in these days of variable width fonts, but what you're doing is
soft-linking all the slave distro .thunderbirds to the master .thunderbird
keeping the original .thunderbirds just in case.

you'll have to substitute the correct paths to the various home directories
and the matching users.
  And I think you may have to do some 'chmod'ing  so that the various
thunderbirds can r/w to the master distro .thunderbird.
  My memory is a bit vague but I think I had to make sure the thunderbird
versions were compatible on each distros.

I did similar for firefox as well but it won't be necessary now that there
is xmarks to use.
brian