On Friday 03 September 2010 22:19:47 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 17:31:08 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > Just open konqueror and where URLs go, just type in "man:ls" or > > > "info:ls" and the man or info page will pop up. > > > > Yes, thanks, I can do that. I just wanted to get my file > > associations cleaned up. > > This isn't a file association though, it's choosing what to run based > on the protocol. Do you have kde-base/kdebase-kioslaves installed? > If you do, re-emerging it may fix whatever has become broken.
Thanks for the idea, but it didn't help. (Is it possible not to have the IO slaves installed? I suppose it is, but what a lot of usefulness would be lost thereby.) It may be significant that I get a new tab in the existing Firefox window, plus a new window in front of the existing one. What might cause that? -- Rgds Peter. Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23.