-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Mike Adolf wrote: > On Tuesday 14 March 2006 05:31 pm, QH Wang wrote: >> Paul wrote: >>>> firefox just ignores clicking on a mailto link and straight mozilla >>>> says another app is required to use mailto. I tell mozilla to launch >>>> it, but nothing happens. What do I need to do? >>> You can fire up the Gnome Control Center and set the default mail >>> application in there. That should work, as far as I know. >>> >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ which gnome-control-center >>> /usr/bin/gnome-control-center >>> >>> Good luck, >>> Paul >> You get set it yourself. In firefox type "about:config", then you get >> all the firefox configuration. In filter type "mailto" you may get four >> entries about mailto. Then you could set >> "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" to your mail program. You may also >> need to set "network.protocol-handler.external.mailto" to "true" and the >> other two "false". >> >> Q.H. > > Q.H. > I am not using Gnome and did not find any KDE appropriate control. I did as > you suggested in foxfire. I got the following: > > network.protocol-handler.expose.mailto false > network.protocol-handler.external.mailto true > network.protocol-handler.warn-external.mailto false > > There was no entry for "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" (that is > probably > the problem). > > A right click on this page produces a menu to add (string, boolean...). I > tried to add the missing property, but nothing was added. > > Mike You are on the right track. (I just had to do this about 15 minutes ago for someone else's setup)
Right click, and create a new string. Use "network.protocol-handler.app.mailto" as the string, when it prompts you for the value of the string, type in the full path to the thunderbird mail program. You can find the path to the thunderbird program with this command. $ which thunderbird If you're not using T-bird for email, then substitute the name and path of the program that you are using. A similar thing needs to be done to Thunderbird, to get it to use Firefox as the default web browser in place of Konq. Instructions for both are on this page: http://www.newbie.org/firefox/#FirefoxFromThunderbird HTH - -- KevinO -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEF8BsI3MJ/OwKti0RAmj9AJ9UYkawUky0r0GURpt9A6xE6bvHiQCcDOr8 jlGK2kUaLPxwlTY2GHBvEQQ= =2hPu -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
