On Friday 19 August 2005 01:52 pm, matt-nc mercilessly beat the keyboard,
and wrote:
| At 12:04 AM 8/18/05 -0400, you wrote:
| >On 8/17/05, matt-nc <<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
| >>I downloaded and unzipped and untarred the files for Firefox and
| >>Thunderbird. Now what?
| >
| >I did as you did and then created shortcuts on the desktop. This
| > works if you are the only user.
|
| Okay, I did the "quick and dirty" solution and all is working well,
| except for default behavior. When I click on a link in an email I get
| the Epiphany browser.
|
| Is there any way (while I have these programs in my personal home
| directory) to specify Firefox as default browser when clicking on a
| link in an email? It doesn't show up in the Gnome Config choices.
|
| And same for Thunderbird, I would like to specify it as default mail
| client when clicking on an email address in Firefox. I haven't
| actually tried doing that yet to see what happens but I suspect it will
| be some other system-wide client that comes up.
|
| Would Stephen Kuhn's method be the solution to this? As he said:
| --------------------
| What I've done in that particular circumstance is to create a
| /usr/local/firefox and /usr/local/thunderbird - and then to create a
| link to both in the /usr/bin directory . . .
| --------------------
|
| Otherwise, I guess the easiest solution is to do the urpmi install and
| then the choices will automatically be available.
|
| Thanks,
| Matt
|
|
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| 1:56:10 PM ET - 8/19/2005
The default WEB browser used to open WEB links is dependant on file
associations settings. In KDE, I open the KDE Control Center, expand
'Components', and select 'File Associations', then expand 'text'. I select
html or which file type I need to change the association for then move the
program I want to use for the file type to the top of the list.
You did not specify, but I surmise you use the Gnome desktop environment. I
do not use gnome, so i do not know how to get to the file type association
settings there, but perhaps this will help you get going in the right
direction.
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