On Tue, 6 Dec 2011 15:31:17 -0800 John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> dijo:
>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. > >I just tried again, exactly as you did. When I had /usr/bin/claws-mail >selected in the file browser window I clicked on Open. The file browser >window closed and the mailto dropdown still said Evolution (default). I >also tried double clicking on /usr/bin/claws-mail instead of using the >Open button, but it still refuses to accept the binary. Someone on the Claws Mail listserve noted my plaintive cries and suggested manually editing the mimeTypes.rdf file, with instructions on how to find it and what to do with it. The mailto prettyName line was pointing to the .desktop file, not the executable. That, in spite of the fact that I had pointed it at the executable repeatedly in Edit > Preferences > Applications > mailto. Manually typing in the executable and its path and saving the file did the trick. I didn't even have to restart Firefox. Thanks to all for the suggestions. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
