On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 16:54 +1100, Leslie Katz wrote: > On that tab, I'm able to select my default web browser. I've got the > Custom Web Browser button highlighted and a box into which I'm to put a > command. The command which appears is the full path to the Firefox > executable. I've tested that command from the command line and it does > open Firefox. Unlike what I understand to be your situation, however, > there is no option available on that tab relating to how links are to be > opened.
If the box has the path to firefox and absolutely nothing else, then that's your problem. When you click a link, evolution is running the command "/usr/bin/firefox", without ever having a chance to pass in the URL to actually open. What you want to do is change that command to something like "/usr/bin/firefox %s". That way, when you click a link, evolution will substitute the %s for the URL to be opened before running the command. So, when you click on http://google.com/ evolution will run "/usr/bin/firefox http://google.com/";. Of course, you can run absolutely any command you want there. Just substitute %s where the URL to open is supposed to go. Good luck, -- Pete > It's occurred to me since posting my original query that maybe there's > something that's changed without my knowing it in the Firefox > configuration editor and that that's what's caused me to lose the > automatic opening of links. > > In the absence of any other suggestions, maybe I should have a look at > that (though there are an awful lot of entries in it, aren't there!). > > Thanks again, > > Leslie -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
