On 06/03/18 20:33, Peter Flynn wrote: >> On Monday 27 Mar 2017 20:47:29 Peter Flynn wrote: >>> On 03/27/2017 07:56 PM, Mick wrote: >>>> On Monday 27 Mar 2017 19:39:21 Peter Flynn wrote: >>>>> On 27/03/17 00:47, Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) wrote: >>>>>> On Sun, 26 Mar 2017 16:55:45 -0400 Christopher Barry >>>>>> >>>>>>> Okay, this is annoying... >>>>>>> >>>>>>> claws-mail uses xdg-open to decide what app to use when >>>>>>> opening files (rather than 'alternatives', which is the >>>>>>> standard Debian way to do this), so clicking on a link in >>>>>>> email always opens Chromium rather than Firefox which is my >>>>>>> system default browser. When I try to see/change it in >>>>>>> Enlightenment, I get the following. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> $ xdg-settings get default-web-browser >>>>>>> xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Any ideas on how to change this setting to point to Firefox? >>>>>> >>>>>> settings -> apps -> default applications -> browser >>>>> >>>>> And does that *really* change xdg settings? >>>>> >>>>> The *big* problem for me is that when I click on a mailto: >>>>> link in chromium-browser, it just opens another browser window, >>>>> or sometimes pops up a window saying it wants to run some >>>>> unspecified program recommended by xdg, which never does >>>>> anything. If anyone knows how to force chromium-browser to >>>>> open Thunderbird, I'd be grateful.>>> >>>> Have you tried setting something in Handlers to see if it takes? >>>> https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/114662?visit_id=0-636262376794060954-3121866498&p=ib_protocol_handler&rd=2 >>>> >>> Unfortunately that's for requesting *web* services to respond to >>> protocol calls (eg make mailto: open Hotmail). It's set by >>> default, but it doesn't do anything that I can see for *programs* >>> (eg Tbird). >> >> Yes, I noticed the same just now. I cannot add anything to it ... >> I suspect Chromium/Chrome use xdg-open, so: >> 'xdg-mime query default message/rfc822' >> should show your default application for e.g. viewing messages. > > Hah. Fixed. > > Nothing to do with handlers, nothing to do with MIME types. > > Everything to do with xdg and its default action, which is to open a > *browser* instead of a *mailer* for mailto: actions. This is entirely > wrong, and I am shocked that the xdg project would make such an > elementary error. It also happens because xdg doesn't know about e. > > Solution: edit /usr/bin/xdg-email and at the bottom, inside the case > command, add > > enlightenment) > open_gnome "${mailto}" > ;; > > before the generic entry. Save and exit. > > ///Peter >
Thanks as the maintainer of xdg-utils in a major distro i'll have a look at this and get it fixed, i've contributed most of the xdg-utils code for enlightenment, the bug is now tracked here https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1084236 so I remember to go fix it. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
