[kline@tao.thought.org: evolution will not bring up broswer when I click-on an URL.]

[Gary Kline]

On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 03:37:03PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
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> Gary Kline wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 01:45:40PM -0400, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
> >>> 	I'm not sure this is correct, but I've mouse-clicked down to 
> >>> 	url -> http, and I see that firefox %s is selected; also 
> >>> 	immediately below "enabled" is check-marked.
> >> This works under the GNOME Desktop:
> >>
> >> /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http
> >>   command : firefox %s
> >>   description : World wide web
> >>   enabled : TRUE
> >>   needs_terminal : FALSE
> >>
> >> Joe
> >>
> > 
> > 	Well, it's probably because I'm using CTWM annd not Gnome here.
> > 	Over on my Ubuntu server I do hae Gnome installled and there 
> > 	evoluttion fails to respond to the clicks on the URL's.  (Yes,
> > 	I *have* asked on the Ubuntuforums place.  Zero replies.)
> > 
> > 	Maybe your clues can help me get the url-handler sworking at
> > 	least under my linux box.  
> 
> You can always test your URL handlers using gnome-open.  If it works, so
> should Evolution.  For example:
> 
> gnome-open http://www.freebsd.org
> 
> Joe
> 


	Well, after usinf find / I located the gnome files on the linux
	box.  It's in /etc, and the url-handler directory is buried way
	down.  But editing both http and https worked.  It was *not*
	pointing at firefox, but somewhere godknows [or doesn't!].
	Nutshell, the mouse-click on URL brings up the broswer.  I used
	find / here and discovered a ~/.gconf/desktop/.....url-hanflers.
	I had used the gconf-editor but it had put in 

	/usr/X11R6/lib/firefox/firefox " %s "

	rather than the ...firefox-bin "%s" in the surrounding XML.  I
	edited it to firefox-bin "%s".  No joy.  My find / discovered
	system-wide gnome directories in /usr/X11R6/, and that's where
	I'll poke around next.

	It's been educational and I'm beginning to appreciate the logic
	of how things-Gome fit together.

	gary



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> Joe Marcus Clarke
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