Set Thunderbird as default app

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At this point I only have a couple of suggestions left:

  1. Add firefox and firefox-langpacks back to the base image, so that there are no RemovedBasePackages left. I expect Firefox to be set up as default registered application, and removing it might have caused this. If adding it back makes the issue go away, then it might be a bug worth reporting.

  2. If the previous step didn’t help, reset the dconf database after having it backed up:

dconf dump / >~/Documents/dconf.backup
dconf reset -f /

You’ll have to repeat any setups you have performed in the Settings app, as well as in GNOME Tweaks (if any), but this might have reset some setting that would allow for Thunderbird to be recognized in Settings.

  1. If the previous step didn’t help, you could manually tweak the ~/.config/mimeapps.list file, and add the following manually, in the corresponding sections (without removing the existing entries):
[Default Applications]
x-scheme-handler/mailto=org.mozilla.Thunderbird.desktop
text/calendar=org.mozilla.Thunderbird.desktop

[Added Associations]
x-scheme-handler/mailto=org.mozilla.Thunderbird.desktop;
text/calendar=org.mozilla.Thunderbird.desktop;