#!/usr/bin/env bash set -euo pipefail SRC_DIR="$(cd "$(dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}")" && pwd)" INSTALL_DIR="/opt/betterbird" echo "Installing Betterbird from $SRC_DIR to $INSTALL_DIR ..." sudo mkdir -p "$(dirname "$INSTALL_DIR")" sudo cp -r "$SRC_DIR" "$INSTALL_DIR" sudo ln -sf "$INSTALL_DIR/betterbird" /usr/local/bin/betterbird sudo tee /usr/share/applications/betterbird.desktop > /dev/null </dev/null || true # --- i3 + polybar tray icon fix --- # # Betterbird gates its tray-icon feature behind mail.minimizeToTray.supportedDesktops, # which defaults to "kde,gnome,pop:gnome,xfce,mate" and does not include i3. On top of # that, within the whitelist it defaults to a StatusNotifierItem (SNI/AppIndicator) tray # icon everywhere except "mate" -- but polybar's tray module only speaks the legacy # XEmbed protocol, and this session has no StatusNotifierWatcher, so an SNI icon has # nowhere to register. # # Fix: add "i3" to both prefs via user.js, which Betterbird force-applies at every # startup (unlike prefs.js, which Betterbird overwrites from its own in-memory state # and would silently drop a plain text edit). THUNDERBIRD_CONFIG_DIR="$HOME/.config/thunderbird" BB_PROFILE_DIR="$(find "$THUNDERBIRD_CONFIG_DIR" -maxdepth 1 -iname "*.default-default" -type d 2>/dev/null | head -1)" if [ -z "$BB_PROFILE_DIR" ]; then BB_PROFILE_DIR="$(find "$THUNDERBIRD_CONFIG_DIR" -maxdepth 1 -iname "*.default*" -type d 2>/dev/null | head -1)" fi if [ -n "$BB_PROFILE_DIR" ]; then echo "Applying i3/polybar tray icon fix to profile: $BB_PROFILE_DIR" USER_JS="$BB_PROFILE_DIR/user.js" touch "$USER_JS" if ! grep -q "mail.minimizeToTray.supportedDesktops" "$USER_JS" 2>/dev/null; then cat >> "$USER_JS" <<'EOF' // Betterbird gates its whole tray-icon feature behind a whitelist of // XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP values; add i3 so the feature isn't disabled outright. user_pref("mail.minimizeToTray.supportedDesktops", "kde,gnome,pop:gnome,xfce,mate,i3"); // Within the whitelist, Betterbird still defaults to a StatusNotifierItem // (SNI/AppIndicator) tray icon everywhere except "mate". polybar's tray // module only speaks the legacy XEmbed protocol, so force the legacy icon // for i3 too. user_pref("mail.systemTrayNoSniSupport", "mate,i3"); EOF else echo "Tray icon fix already present in $USER_JS, skipping." fi else echo "No Betterbird profile found yet -- launch Betterbird once, then re-run this script to apply the i3/polybar tray icon fix." fi echo "Done. Launch with 'betterbird' or from your application menu."