[Nottingham] RH9, Evolution URL launching

Andrew Bates andrew at setab.demon.co.uk
Mon Feb 16 12:29:05 GMT 2004


On Tue, 2004-02-10 at 12:51, James Beckett wrote:
> Anyone using Evolution on RH9?
> 
> I seem to have lost track of how to configure which browser is used
> when you click on a URL in an email message in Evolution.. I'm sure
> I had it set to Mozilla before, but switched to Galeon for a while;
> I'm not back on moz but URLs still launch in galeon.
> 
> Is this an evo setting, some gtk-global setting, Gnome or what?
> 
> I've tried
>   every menu I can see in Evo
> 
>   (hat menu)-Preferences-Preferred Applications
>     Select a Web Browser = Mozilla/Netscape 6
>     Custom Web Browser
> 
>   Preferences-File Types and Programs
> 
>   GConf

Just run these 2 commands as the user and not root.

gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command -t string
'mozilla %s' 
gconftool-2 --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command -t string
'mozilla %s'

-- 
Andrew Bates <andrew at setab.demon.co.uk>




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