thank you for repllies. more below. i will reply to rest of message when can, but wanted to give the answers. [n.b. i still have drafts on other things because it takes me long time to do things but they are there.]
On 6/10/22, Max Nikulin <maniku...@gmail.com> wrote: > - Have you tried to check that org-protocol still works on your system? > xdg-open 'org-protocol:/org-capture?url=something' i ran this from emacs shell mode bash cli as user. it brought firefox to fg, opened a new tab, and the tab has a search page in my default search engine that says "org-protocol:/org-capture?url=something" in the search box. is that correct? [idk if relevant, but after the rebooting, deluge also broke; it stopped running the correct bash script upon rclick open on a file. idk why. somebody suggested i run xdg-mime with a coupld of commans for a video fie but xdg-open still fails to call what i set [it calls a video player when run on that type of file] and deluge is still broken [called broken video players until i uninstalled them, een after i did the xdg-mime thing, and now calls the same video player]. i find that xdg-open, mime, and file associations are too complex for me, do the wrong thing, stop working.] > - Have you checked what action is set for org-protocol in Firefox > settings page about:preferences "Applications" section? org-protocol is there. strangely it says "always ask" even though clicking on the org-capture unicorn does not ask. the icon looks like a page with a dog-ear. there is nothing indicating what action is set. double clicking does nothing. rclick oes nothing. i undid the tst sidebar and turned on js and still see no action listed. > - Have you tried to create a html page with an org-protocol link and to > click on it? no clue what i would do to do that.
