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Kai

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From: Germany

Registered: 2006-12-11

Posts: 27

Minefield and Terminal (XFCE)

Hi folks!

If I try to open a URL from a Terminal-Window FireFox opens a new window and tries to load 2 pages:

www.%u.com and the real page I want to open. (While the %u-tab keeps the focus)

It's somehow strange since opening URLs via pidgin or similar apps works like expected.
(Open a new tab, load the page and pass the focus to it)

Does anyone experience similar behavior or has a solution to this annoying problem?

Kai

sniffles

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Registered: 2008-01-23

Posts: 275

Re: Minefield and Terminal (XFCE)

Is that the XFCE Terminal or something? Check its settings (personally I don't use it, so I don't know if this will turn out to be useful); try to determine how it "opens links" (i.e. what arguments it passes to the WWW browser). Or perhaps such settings are visible/modifiable somewhere else as far as XFCE goes. Check your settings.

Last edited by sniffles (2008-06-30 16:32:16)

Kai

Member

From: Germany

Registered: 2006-12-11

Posts: 27

Re: Minefield and Terminal (XFCE)

Hi,

This is the solution:
xfce4 preferred applications -> browser -> changed it from "firefox" to "Mozilla Firefox" and it works.
The ~/.local/share/xfce4/helpers/custom-WebBrowser.desktop contained a bug:

X-XFCE-CommandsWithParameter=firefox "%u" "%s"

What I still do not get is how this file was created; maybe due migration from ff2 to ff3?!

Another thing is, that a "self build" run fine, even with the old setting; something is still very confusing...

Kai