mail apps won't launch browsers

slackhack · 2006-04-24 13:55:48

i've tried thunderbird and sylpheed. they give a popup dialog that says "could not start Gnome browser... unable to determine address of the message bus." it's the same whether they're trying to open firefox, epiphany, or galeon (btw, the gtk2/gnome interface really sucks in that you can't just enter a pathname to an app manually, but you have to search all over the place if you don't know where ti is, and drill down to the application with mouse clicks )

i get the same thing when i try to run epiphany from the command line, but firefox and galeon both work from there. epiphany launches from cli if i put "dbus-launch" in front of the command. i tried adding that into the thunderbird mimetypes file, but it didn't work.

dbus is running, does anyone know what's wrong, or, more importantly, how to fix this dbus problem? :?:

tomk · 2006-04-24 14:32:11

I don't know about sylpheed, but you can set this in Thunderbird. Click Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Config Editor, and create two new Preference Names called network.protocol-handler.app.http and .https, with Type string and Value firefox, epiphany, or any other browser's launch command.

slackhack · 2006-04-25 13:09:41

same result, i still get the message bus error.

cactus · 2006-04-25 17:56:19

you can set a default browser in the gnome preferences.. preferred applications.
is that what you mean?

Mr Green · 2006-04-25 18:20:02

http://opensource.weblogsinc.com/2004/1 … -on-linux/

errr don't know if that helps

slackhack · 2006-04-25 21:36:18

cactus wrote:

you can set a default browser in the gnome preferences.. preferred applications.
is that what you mean?

i don't know, i use xfce. i'll try changing that in gnome and see if it works, thanks.

phrakture · 2006-04-26 20:08:53

slackhack wrote:

dbus is running, does anyone know what's wrong, or, more importantly, how to fix this dbus problem? :?:

I thought you needed 2 dbus busses now. Eventually it'll be 30 or so. You'll need 128M or ram dedicated just to dbus. Hooray for randomly ignoring Unix design philosophy!

cactus · 2006-04-26 21:47:44

hop on d-bus, and get off at the correct stop.

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