thank you for that /very/ useful information. cannot seem to reproduce at this time as i'd have to narrow down the dialog box in which this occurs [i think on a save link in gmail with some extensions or so is one place] for haelth reasons but i think part of the problem is that .emacs is not called, and/or that a tiny little unreadable xterm is launched and emacs is run in it. why firefox would do that, idk.
i will quite likely need the information in your post if the .emacs and/or xterm thing gets solved. but it turns out that with /usr/bin/emacs in normal use [no personal script needed] everything is accessible. my path doesn't override that. so idk why ff makes emacs not load .emacs or does an xterm. /usr/bin/emacs results in indeed emacs25 atm. gnome and kde are too heavy for my computer, and they can't do everything fluxbox can, and fluxbox mostly wfm. i don't get what things de's do that i need, but perhaps setting default fonts/colors for various toolkits is one of them. On 5/2/22, Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am not sure from which site you downloaded that attachment, MIME type > may vary depending on the HTTP server configuration. You yay check > Content-Type response header in the browser development tools or using > > curl -I '<URL>' > > command. It may be "text/plain", "text/x-patch", "application/x-patch", > etc. > > In Firefox settings (about:preferences page) check that "Applications" > section either does not contain an entry for the MIME type (is unlikely > in your case since you already opened a file) or its handler is > configured to "Always ask" till you select your new handler. > > System-wide .desktop file may reside e.g. in > "/usr/share/applications/emacs.desktop". You can put your customized > file in e.g. "~/.local/share/applications/" directory > ("$XDG_DATA_HOME/applications/") or into "applications" subdirectory of > "$XDG_DATA_DIRS" entry. For details see > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/basedir-spec/basedir-spec-latest.html > > Customize "Exec" entry in the .desktop file to add your options, e.g. > create "emacs-a11y.desktop" > > ---- >8 ---- > [Desktop Entry] > Version=1.0 > Name=Accessible Emacs (GUI) > GenericName=Text Editor > Comment=GNU Emacs is an extensible, customizable text editor - and more > MimeType=text/english;text/plain;text/x-makefile;text/x-c++hdr;text/x-c++src;text/x-chdr;text/x-csrc;text/x-java;text/x-moc;text/x-pascal;text/x-tcl;text/x-tex;application/x-shellscript;text/x-c;text/x-c++; > TryExec=/usr/bin/emacs > Exec=/usr/bin/emacs %F > Icon=emacs > Type=Application > Terminal=false > Categories=Utility;Development;TextEditor; > StartupWMClass=Emacs > Keywords=Text;Editor; > ---- 8< ---- > > It is better to set unique "Name" to distinguish it from the default > Emacs launcher. Desktop file format reference: > https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html > > Notice that browser launcher script may reset PATH environment to some > safe value, so executables from custom directories may be unavailable > without specifying of the full path. > > MIME type should be among the values of the MimeType field inside the > ".desktop" file or in the "mimeapps.list" file. In the former case run > (with proper directory) > > update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications > > In the latter case add to "~/config/mimeapps.list" mapping from the MIME > type to your .desktop file > > ---- >8 ---- > [Added Associations] > text/plain=emacs-a11y.desktop; > ---- 8< ---- > > And maybe > > ---- >8 ---- > [Default Applications] > text/plain=emacs-a11y.desktop; > ---- 8< ---- > > With such recipe a new instance of Emacs will be launched for each > downloaded file. Likely you would prefer to use you main Emacs session > or a special session of Emacs for untrusted content fetched from web. In > such case you can use "emacsclient" command in the ".desktop" file and > maybe systemd user socket+service units pair to run Emacs on demand. > > If you are still using emacs-25 then e.g. "--fg-daemon" option is > unavailable and related files are not included in the package. For > inspiration you may check > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/emacsclient.desktop > http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/etc/emacs.service > https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Emacs-Server.html > > Finally a rather unrelated question. Do you find accessibility tools in > Gnome or KDE inconvenient? I believed that it should be more difficult > to arrange setup from scratch for fluxbox. However I never tried any of > these options. > >> On 5/1/22, Max Nikulin wrote: >>> On 01/05/2022 11:53, Samuel Wales wrote: >>>> >>>> [firefox did not offer to allow a command line to run my shell script >>>> which sets up emacs correctly, and idk if it even ran with my .emacs. >>>> does it do -q? not sure because emacs is too unusable to even find >>>> that out. so firefox fails to be accessible in that dialog box. >>> >>> Samuel, I think, firefox does exactly what it can find in MIME >>> associations (e.g. ~/.config/mimeapps.list) and in the .desktop file of >>> the selected application. >>> >>> There is an emacsclient.desktop file in Emacs git master that tries to >>> connect to the existing Emacs session. It is a relatively new addition, >>> so packages for Linux distributions may miss it. >>> >>> You can either use standard Emacs initialization to get all your >>> customization available through default emacs.desktop or create a custom >>> .desktop file that contain all CLI options specific to your setup. > -- The Kafka Pandemic A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com