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Hi,

After more than 2 years with this issue, changing things in numerous files, Advances Settings and so on, I finally solved it today.

For those who have this issue, who can't open links, with Thunderbird asking you what application it has to use, but no suggestions, all you have to do is to install:

• xdg-desktop-portal

And, according to you environment:

• xdg-desktop-portal-gnome (Gnome)
• xdg-desktop-portal-kde (KDE)
• xdg-desktop-portal-xapp (Mate, XFCE…)

You get the idea.

It's weird that those packages are not installed by default, let me now if this solves your issues too, so everybody can finally enjoy using Thunderbird again!

Best regards,

Upgraded to 24.04, now I require to type my password to use indicator-cpufreq (or indicator-cpufreq-selector, which I suspect does the actual changing).
Wasn't the case before, baffled why since other applications doing the same don't need one.

I'm a noob with the sudoers file, so forgive any mistakes and point them out to me.
Tried adding the indicator plugin to it in the hopes of bypassing the password requirement.

I did:
sudo visudo

added at the bottom:

myusername ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/bin/indicator-cpufreq
myusername ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/bin/indicator-cpufreq-selector

This did not work.

I also tried it as a oneliner with
myusername ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:/bin/indicator-cpufreq,/bin/indicator-cpufreq-selector

Just to be sure, I also did add the /usr/bin/ equivalents of the above.
Same outcome as before.

I ran sudo indicator-cpufreq – this works, if isolated.
But the panel plugin entry, which is spawned via the new Status Tray Plugin, rejects this.
I found out it's now fully part of xfce4-panel – unfortunately – so I can't just add a binary of the plugin to sudoers… adding the xfce4-panel itself did not solve it and isn't exactly a solution I would have desired for many reasons anyway.

What am I doing wrong, what could I do (other than giving up and moving on, again)?
I'm slowly tempted to add the indicator to my login scripts and hide it in the tray to avoid a double entry… but that would be yet another hacky workaround. : /