On Wednesday 15 March 2006 02:21 am, KevinO wrote: > 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
I did it and it now works. Thanks, Mike ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from Mandriva? Go to http://store.mandriva.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrivaclub.com ____________________________________________________
