On 12/03/2017 07:10 AM, mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: > Daniel wrote: >> mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote: >>> I've just installed SeaMonkey from Ubuntuzilla on Linux Mint 18.3 >>> MATE, using the instructions at >>> <https://sourceforge.net/p/ubuntuzilla/wiki/Main_Page/#installation>. >>> >>> On starting SeaMonkey, it prompts to "Use SeaMonkey as the default >>> client for:" with "Browser" and "Email" preselected. I click OK, and >>> it does appear to be correctly set as the default application - .html >>> files, http: URLs etc. from other applications open with SeaMonkey. >>> However, every time I start SeaMonkey it prompts again to set it as >>> the default client. I /could/ just untick "Always perform this check >>> when starting SeaMonkey" and I expect it wouldn't prompt again, but >>> I'm pretty sure this prompt is only supposed to appear if SeaMonkey is >>> not already the default. >>> >>> Ubuntuzilla sets up an entry for SeaMonkey in the applications menu >>> (file at /usr/share/applications/seamonkey-mozilla-build.desktop), but >>> I'm not sure if there's something else that needs to be configured in >>> MATE to enable SeaMonkey to detect that it's already set as the >>> default browser and mail client? Or perhaps this is a problem with >>> SeaMonkey itself, possibly related to >>> <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1036903>? >>> >>> I did notice that having SeaMonkey set itself as the default client >>> creates a ~/.local/share/applications/userapp-SeaMonkey-WYLOAZ.desktop >>> file and adds references to that into ~/.config/mimeapps.list, rather >>> than referencing the seamonkey-mozilla-build.desktop which defines the >>> menu item. Editing ~/.config/mimeapps.list to point to >>> seamonkey-mozilla-build.desktop doesn't make any difference though. >>> I've also tried using xdg-settings and xdg-mime to configure similar >>> mappings, and selecting SeaMonkey as the default web browser and mail >>> reader at Mint's Menu > Preferences > Preferred Applications, but >>> SeaMonkey still prompts to be set as the default client every time it >>> starts. >>> >>> Has anyone got the default client check to work on MATE, or is >>> disabling "Always perform this check when starting SeaMonkey" the only >>> way of avoiding the prompt every time? I don't really mind doing that; >>> it would just be nice to have it work properly if it just needs a bit >>> of configuration. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Mark. >>> >> Mark, I think your only recourse is to tick the box. > > Tick or untick? With it ticked, SeaMonkey prompts to be set as default > every time it starts, which is rather annoying. > >> Logically, if you start up some other Browser/Mail Agent, it would do a >> similar check and present you with a similar screen, allowing you to >> change your default Browser/Mail Agent. > > I'm not sure I follow. If I start some other browser with similar > options, I would set that one not to be default and not to check, > leaving SeaMonkey as the default. SeaMonkey (with "Always perform this > check..." set) should then detect that it's still the default and not > prompt. At least that's what I'd expect, and how it works under Windows. > On the Linux Mint MATE machine I'm setting up, SeaMonkey always prompts > to set itself as the default client, even when it is already the default: > - Start SeaMonkey > - OK the prompt to set it as default browser and mail client > - Close SeaMonkey > - Start SeaMonkey > - SeaMonkey prompts to be set as the default browser and mail client, > even though it has just been set as the default and nothing has changed > that. > > Ideally I'd leave "Always perform this check..." set, so that if > something else did get set to be the default, SeaMonkey would detect > that and offer to set itself back to being the default. Disabling > "Always perform this check..." would prevent that from happening, but at > the moment seems to be the only way to avoid being prompted every time > SeaMonkey starts even when it's already the default. Not too bad if > that's the way it is; I'm unlikely to accidentally set something else to > be the default, and if I did I could just set the default back to > SeaMonkey. But if there's just some bit of configuration I'm missing to > make SeaMonkey's default check work it would be nice to do. >
Have you set SeaMonkey as default in your system settings? I'm not familiar with MATE, but I think it to be similar to, and based on Ubuntu; Config cog icon|System Settings|Details|Default Applications|Web/Mail set to SeaMonkey? Try that & see if that resolves the issue. If not, you may need to use about:config and search for 'default' and then look for settings with 'browser' - I 'think' the settings that affect the browser check is: browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser Try setting that to 'true' if set to 'false' (double click to toggle true/false). _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list support-seamonkey@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
