On 04/05/2013 03:41 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote: > On 05/04/13 17:59, Steven Stern wrote: >> On 04/05/2013 08:42 AM, Kevin Martin wrote: >>> On 04/04/13 20:36, Ed Greshko wrote: >>>> On 04/05/13 09:19, Steven Stern wrote: >>>>> It is. It's got to be something to do with Chrome, but I can't >>>>> find any >>>>> setting there. >>>> >>>> There are no settings for this in chrome. It works fine here.... >>>> It is always a puzzle to find out what controls this and if it >>>> matters what DE is being used. Anyway.... One more thing to check.... >>>> >>>> Everything works for me fine using KDE. >>>> >>>> [egreshko@meimei ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler mailto >>>> handler is thunderbird >>>> /usr/share/applications/mozilla-thunderbird.desktop >>>> >>>> And in /usr/share/applications/mozilla-thunderbird.desktop >>>> >>>> Exec=thunderbird %u >>>> >>> Check your /usr/bin/xdg-email for a section called run_thunderbird >>> and see if you have a line that says: >>> >>> MAILTO=$(echo "$2" | sed 's/^mailto://') >>> >>> If not, you probably need to update xdg-utils. >>> >>> Kevin >>> >> It's there. Again, the issue is NOT that Thunderbird is not getting >> launched, but the word "mailto:"; appears in the email address if >> launched from a link in Chrome. The address is just fine when the link >> comes from Firefox. >> >> > I've had the same problem with google-chrome under xfce. When I selected: > > Applications Menu -> Settings -> Preferred Applications > > Mail Reader was shown as "Mozilla Thunderbird" but when I changed it to: > /usr/bin/thunderbird "%s" > > the problem vanished. >
Erik: THANKS! -- -- Steve -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
