Re: SOLVED: Making Seamonkey the default browser in Ubuntu
Cruz, Jaime wrote: FINALLY got my question answered (I asked it about two years ago here and never got a valid answer). The partial solution is in this link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2234277 What's missing is that after you've updated the seamonkey-mozilla-build.desktop file, you have to somehow force the mime relationships to be rebuilt. The OP of that thread said he rebooted several times and it magically showed up, but that's not it. Somehow you have to force the mime-relationships to be rebuilt. I discovered it by accident when I uninstalled LibreOffice 4.2.5 so I could install LibreOffice 4.3.0. Once the installation was complete, Seamonkey magically showed up as a choice in the System Settings Default Applications tool. I wonder if there is a command that could force the rebuild of those relationships? Also, maybe Daniel Folkenshteyn (sp?) could update his Ubuntuzilla scripts to take care of this automatically? Found out how to force the mime-relationships to be rebuilt: http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man1/update-desktop-database.1.html -- Jaime A. Cruz Nassau Wings Motorcycle Club http://www.nassauwings.org/ AMA District 34 http://www.AMADistrict34.com/ Pop's Run http://www.popsrun.org/ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
Re: SOLVED: Making Seamonkey the default browser in Ubuntu
On 31/07/2014 11:35, Cruz, Jaime wrote: FINALLY got my question answered (I asked it about two years ago here and never got a valid answer). The partial solution is in this link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2234277 What's missing is that after you've updated the seamonkey-mozilla-build.desktop file, you have to somehow force the mime relationships to be rebuilt. The OP of that thread said he rebooted several times and it magically showed up, but that's not it. Somehow you have to force the mime-relationships to be rebuilt. I discovered it by accident when I uninstalled LibreOffice 4.2.5 so I could install LibreOffice 4.3.0. Once the installation was complete, Seamonkey magically showed up as a choice in the System Settings Default Applications tool. I wonder if there is a command that could force the rebuild of those relationships? Also, maybe Daniel Folkenshteyn (sp?) could update his Ubuntuzilla scripts to take care of this automatically? There is a Thunderbird Bug 824909 - can't print .eml files - print preview remains blank https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=824909 Which tries to fix a broken MIME type settings on GTK+ +// Attempt to repair broken desktop MIME association on GNU systems... Phil -- Philip Chee phi...@aleytys.pc.my, philip.c...@gmail.com http://flashblock.mozdev.org/ http://xsidebar.mozdev.org Guard us from the she-wolf and the wolf, and guard us from the thief, oh Night, and so be good for us to pass. ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
SOLVED: Making Seamonkey the default browser in Ubuntu
FINALLY got my question answered (I asked it about two years ago here and never got a valid answer). The partial solution is in this link: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2234277 What's missing is that after you've updated the seamonkey-mozilla-build.desktop file, you have to somehow force the mime relationships to be rebuilt. The OP of that thread said he rebooted several times and it magically showed up, but that's not it. Somehow you have to force the mime-relationships to be rebuilt. I discovered it by accident when I uninstalled LibreOffice 4.2.5 so I could install LibreOffice 4.3.0. Once the installation was complete, Seamonkey magically showed up as a choice in the System Settings Default Applications tool. I wonder if there is a command that could force the rebuild of those relationships? Also, maybe Daniel Folkenshteyn (sp?) could update his Ubuntuzilla scripts to take care of this automatically? -- Jaime A. Cruz Nassau Wings Motorcycle Club http://www.nassauwings.org/ AMA District 34 http://www.AMADistrict34.com/ Pop's Run http://www.popsrun.org/ ___ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
