On 06/20/2015 09:26 PM, Ralph Katz wrote: > Jessie, xfce, iceweasel preferred browser, icedove preferred mail > reader, Icedove fails to open mailto: links and iceweasel's Email Link > with the following error: > > Icedove error message window, titled Close Icedove: > Icedove is already running, but is not responding. To open a new > window, you must first close the existing Icedove process, or restart > your system. > > One instance of icedove is running. > > This problem began several years ago with a thunderbird upgrade, and > it may come from an unknown legacy prefs setting or whatever that has > me stumped. I've since dropped thunderbird for the icedove version. > > Any suggestions for running this down?
First of all, check that the following works from the command line: icedove mailto:[email protected] If that does, then icedove works properly. The next thing to check if if you have set the iceweasel (!) preference network.protocol-handler.app.mailto ? If so, check what it is. You can remove that setting, it is not necessary if the MIME associations are configured properly.) Then check that network.protocol-handler.external.mailto is set properly in iceweasel (i.e. to true). If that is all the case, iceweasel will use the standard XDG mechanism for starting external programs on mailto: links. Then you can check what the default mailto handler is with xdg-mime: xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/mailto That will print the name of the .desktop file that controls the app that is supposed to be called on mailto links. That should ideally be 'icedove.desktop'. If not, you can set that explicitly via xdg-mime default icedove.desktop x-scheme-handler/mailto But then you still have to check that the desktop file is correct. You can find the system-wide desktop file under /usr/share/applications/icedove.desktop It should contain a line Exec=icedove %u If so, that's fine. Then you should check that nothing overrides the .desktop file: - system-wide there might be a icedove.desktop in /usr/local/share/applications - in your home directory there might be a icedove.desktop in ~/.local/share/applications If one of them exists, check that they have the correct Exec= line. Hope that helps. Christian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
