Evolution + html-links dosn't work [SOLVED]

CyberTron · 2005-06-04 08:36:58

Hi!

I just recently installed evolution 2, for my mails and calendar and such....I use Enlightenment, and Firefox is my browser of the web.

How come, that I cannot press a link in a mail in evolution and get it to open Firefox, instead it doesn't do anything at all..I have gone through the settings and can not find anything related to "open in this browser: browsername"

any ideas?

UPDATE: It finally workes, the only thing one had to do, was to install gnome, and change "default applications" then it workes in any wm/de , or so it seems at least
thanks for all the help and tips

cactus · 2005-06-04 08:40:01

what window manager are you using?

CyberTron · 2005-06-04 08:40:46

enlightenment 16.8

miracle · 2005-07-30 11:33:08

I have this issue too ! I use Gnome

T-Dawg · 2005-07-30 11:45:27

So do I using xfce4. Thunderbird gives the same problem as well. Sylpheed works however...

BigBadPenguin · 2005-07-30 13:12:56

Have you tried running it from an xterm? Do you get any error messages?

RedShift · 2005-07-30 13:29:12

run gnome-default-applications-properties

CyberTron · 2005-07-30 14:44:09

redshift: but if one does not use gnome?? this should not have to be an issue of "specifik" properties in certain DE/WMs it should be configured within or in a config-file for evolution (at least I want it that way)

jackmetal · 2005-07-30 15:15:20

I have the same problem with: fluxbox > thunderbird

JGC · 2005-07-31 13:15:58

CyberTron wrote:

redshift: but if one does not use gnome?? this should not have to be an issue of "specifik" properties in certain DE/WMs it should be configured within or in a config-file for evolution (at least I want it that way)

Evolution is a heavily integrated part of the gnome desktop, and uses gnome settings for default programs. If you change a setting in gnome, you change the setting in evolution too. Install control-center and run the program as told by redshift, evolution will use firefox in the future then.

jackmetal · 2005-07-31 14:14:33

Interesting: Even though I don't use gnome at all, I went ahead and tried it... Installed control-center, ran gnome-default-applications-properties, and it's working in my fluxbox now..

T-Dawg · 2005-07-31 14:20:09

I can't believe thats all I had to do.

CyberTron · 2005-07-31 17:38:02

just realized the same thing myself

workes perfect now

dninja · 2006-10-24 21:16:46

As I use fluxbox, not gnome, can anyone tell me what files gnome-default-applications-properties changes.

I know that I could install control-center but as that then installs gnome-desktop, nautilus and a few other gnome related things. I'd be happy to just create/edit the config files.

Linteg · 2006-10-25 07:59:36

dninja wrote:

As I use fluxbox, not gnome, can anyone tell me what files gnome-default-applications-properties changes.
I know that I could install control-center but as that then installs gnome-desktop, nautilus and a few other gnome related things. I'd be happy to just create/edit the config files.

You need to edit these four files:
~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/{about,http,https,unknown}/%gconf.xml

dninja · 2006-10-25 22:36:05

I haven't got a desktop directory in .gnome, could you post an example file so that I can create the directories and files.

Ta

Linteg · 2006-10-26 08:01:15

It's in the gconf-folder, not gnome, and as the forums won't properly reproduce what i post, look here http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/foru … um_id=6199
but instead of name="enabled"..."true" use "needs-terminal"..."false" (well, unless your browser actually needs a terminal )

dninja · 2006-10-26 09:55:25

Thanks for that, I'll give it a try.

And I meant .gconf not .gnome . Either way, I don't have a desktop directory in either of them!

dninja · 2006-10-26 10:07:40

It worked, I tried creating the file by hand but it didn't like something so I tried a variation on the commands given in the SourceForge link.

For anyone else who wants to do this, the following commands got http and https working a treat. Thanks Linteg

~ $ gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command --type string "firefox %s"
~ $ gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled --type bool true
~ $ gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command --type string "firefox %s"
~ $ gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled --type bool true

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