i did f12, selected text with mouse, clicked on unicorn icon, and this appeared:
> Prevented navigation to > “org-protocol://capture?template=p&url=https%3A%2F%2Fplanet.emacslife.com%2F&title=Planet%20Emacslife&body=This%20month” > due to an unknown protocol. On 6/10/22, Samuel Wales <samolog...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. > -- The Kafka Pandemic A blog about science, health, human rights, and misopathy: https://thekafkapandemic.blogspot.com