19 Feb
2005
19 Feb
'05
11:04 a.m.
On Sat, 2005-02-19 at 11:25 +0100, Serge Marelli wrote:
Hi,
I'm getting fed-up with "hidden settings" which the user (apparently)
can't change.
For specific reasons, I use mainly two mail clients, namely : KMail and
Evolution. I was somewhat surprised that this worked (using KDE) since
AFAIK Evolution is a Gnome app but it does work.
I can help with Evolution...
What I don't like and don't know how to
change is the "default" browser
settings which each app seems to define and redefine whenever and
however they like.
Whenever I click on an URL in a mail I read through Evolution, it
launches an Epyphany window to show the webpage.
Whenever I click on an URL in a mail I read through Kmail/Kontact, it
launches an Konquerror window to show the webpage.
Now, I want to use FireFox and not the other products. And I'm fed up
with having to close the window, copy the URL and paste it in Firefox.
I've tried every parameter I could find and identify.
Does anyone here have any idea how one can parameter the mail clients
NOT to use their (imaginary) default browsers, but the one the user
wants to use?
Evolution is the official GNOME mail client, therefore it integrates
with the desktop by reusing the global setting for the default browser.
If you have GNOME installed, you can find that setting here:
"Foot Menu" -> Apps -> Desktop Prefs -> Advanced -> Preferred Apps
In the window that opens you can select your default browser.
If for some reason you don't have all of GNOME installed, you can
change the setting with gconf-editor. Two keys need to be changed:
"/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command" and the equivalent for https.
As command you should set for example: mozilla-firefox %s
If you don't want to use gconf-editor, you can also set these keys with
a command-line tool:
$ gconftool-2 --type string
--set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command "mozilla-firefox %s"
(The above should be all on one line).
Hope this helps,
Christian
thanks for any info
Serge