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Lightning is a calendar extension for Mozilla Thunderbird.

Mozilla Lightning is an extension for the Thunderbird email program, providing a calendar feature. As opposed to Sunbird, it is not a standalone application.

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Latest update to Thunderbird 60.2.1 on 18.04 - Lightning calendar missing

After completing an Ubuntu automatic software update (15 Oct 2018) that included Thunderbird 60.2.1 the Lightning calendar is now missing. When I click on Thunderbird's Add-On tab to see if there's an update for Lightning I'm told that all the…
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How do I set Lightning as the default calendar app?

I want to set Thunderbird's calendar extension, Lightning, as the default calendar app. Is this possible?
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Why are Thunderbird-Lightning events not showing in Unity panel calendar?

This is very annoying as Evolution events were not only visible, but also clickable in the unity panel calendar. Isn't this possible with Thunderbird in Oneiric?
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Which is the proper way to add Lightning calendar to Thunderbird (60+)?

A recent update of Thunderbird in Ubuntu (version 60.2.1) broke the Lightning calendar installed as add-on. See here. Mozilla provides Lightning as bundled in the last versions, but Ubuntu (and Debian?) package do not, so now there is a mismatch…
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Thunderbird Lightning: Show only the future days

I just want to see the next days in thunderbird/lightning. I could not find a configuration option to show the calendar with only the next days ahead. I made a big red cross over the days I don't care about. Instead I want to see more days…
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Installing Lightning Add-On on Thunderbird

I attempted to install The Lightning plugin for Thunderbird. I do this by going to Tools -> Add-ons. I search for Lightning and click "Add to Thunderbird". Then I get a popup asking me if I want to open or save this .xpi file. If I click open,…
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Thunderbird: I accept an invitation, but the sender does not see it

I receive an invitation to an event via email. I use thunderbird and accept the invitation. I use tine20 for my calendar. I can see the event in my calendar. But the sender does not see that I accepted the event. I have no clue how to debug…
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Calendar not working in Thunderbird

I have done a fresh install of Ubuntu 11.04, and then installed Thunderbird. I have tried to install two extensions, Lightning and then Provider for Google Calendar. Neither add-on will show up in the add-ons menu after the install and reboot of…
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How to restore missing calendar data from Lightning/Thunderbird

Today out of nowhere all my events and tasks disappeared from my Thunderbird. However, I have a full backup of .thunderbird folder. How can I restore my calendar data? I reverted these files to previous…
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How to prevent Thunderbird from updating automatically?

today at startup my Tb (not precisely sure what version it was) asked if it should check compatibility of the lightning calendar addon. That is to say it displayed in a list windows the only item: lightning and said it was not compatible. Choices…
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Thunderbird: Lightning calendar extension not translated

I'm using Mozilla's Thunderbird with thunderbird-locale-de and xul-ext-lightning for calendaring. Unfortunately, the lightning extension seems not to be translated - while the rest of thunderbird is. Is there a way to get the calendar part of…
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How can I show Thunderbird Lightning tasks and events in the Gnome Clock applet?

We used to have this functionality with Evolution: clicking on the date-time in the gnome panel would show a list of events/tasks/appointments from the Evolution Calendar. As an interesting side effect, one would receive alarm notifications even…
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Lightning is not compatible with Thunderbird 7.0.1

I reinstalled Ubuntu 11.10 the other day and now when I try to install the Lightning extension in Thunderbird it states: Lightning is not compatible with Thunderbird 7.0.1. As extra information lightning is not comming up automaticly when searching…
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How does the drop-down calendar in the panel work? New event button does not do anything

I just found out that in 13.10 there's an "add event" button in the calendar that drops down from the panel. Yet i couldn't figure out how to make it work? For me clicking it does nothing. Does it integrate with Google calendar or Lightning at all?…
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Thunderbird 16 and Lightning

I have just upgraded from Thunderbird 15 to 16 and then found that Lightning 1.7 is not compatible with Thunderbird 16, leaving me without a calendar. What are my options? Should I try and go back to Thunderbird 15 or is there someway of finding a…
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