On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 14:35:32 -0800
Dale Snell <[email protected]> dijo:

>I just tried to set my "mailto:"; default in Firefox 8 on Fedora 16,
>and it worked just fine.  I went to Preferences and clicked on the
>Applications icon.  Selected "mailto" in the list, and used the
>drop-down menu to select "Use other..." (the second-to-last selection
>in the list).  At that point, I was given a file selector, and I
>selected /usr/bin/claws-mail.  I tested it, and it did indeed give me
>claws-mail, instead of the default (which is KMailService).  Firefox
>was even nice enough to just give me a Compose window from an
>already-running instance of Claws-Mail, rather than starting up
>another copy.
>
>You have to tell it the name of the actual executable.  The .desktop
>file(s), if any, won't work.  As far as I know, those are just for
>using the mouse to start things from an icon on the desktop.

Forgot to ask if you are using Xfce, Gnome or KDE, although from what
you said I am assuming KDE. 

I need to log out and back in with Gnome to see if the problem
persists. If so, then the problem is not in my Xfce. 
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