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mrutter

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Registered: 2009-05-25

Posts: 16

Gnome terminal cannot open http links

I have a gnome DE with openbox as my window manager and I use gnome-terminal. Normally when there is a http:// link I can right click and select "open link" to have it opened in a tab in firefox. However, recently I now get an error message:

Could not open the address "http://google.com" Operation not supported

I also tested this in another terminal emulator, sakura, and found that links don't open either, just with no error message. In other applications, for example thunderbird, links open in firefox correctly.

My gnome gconf seems to be set correctly.

cat .gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/%gconf.xml 
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
    <entry name="needs_terminal" mtime="1282144051" type="bool" value="false"/>
    <entry name="enabled" mtime="1282144051" type="bool" value="true"/>
    <entry name="command" mtime="1282144051" type="string">
        <stringvalue>/usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox &quot;%s&quot;</stringvalue>
    </entry>
</gconf>

Any ideas?

Last edited by mrutter (2010-08-18 15:16:22)