[Sussex] X automatic Login

Stephen Williams sdp.williams at btinternet.com
Thu Nov 11 09:50:15 UTC 2004


John,


On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 09:41, John D. wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 07:56, Stephen Williams wrote:
> > John,
> > 
> > How's your Italian? Parliamo Italiano?
> > 

> > Try this link:
> > 
> > http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=228827&highlight=evolution+browser
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Basically enter the following commands, modified to suit your choice of
> > browser, for https:
> > 
> > $ gconftool-2 --type=string --set
> > /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command "firefox %s" 
> > $ gconftool-2 --type=bool --set
> > /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/need-terminal false 
> > $ gconftool-2 --type=bool --set
> > /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled true 
> > 
> > For http:
> > 
> > $ gconftool-2 --type=string --set
> > /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command "firefox %s" 
> > $ gconftool-2 --type=bool --set
> > /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/need-terminal false 
> > $ gconftool-2 --type=bool --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled
> > true
> Well I've tried that, but as I don't have firefox installed, I changed
> the first line so it reflected mozilla (the properties for my desktop
> icon showing as /usr/bin/mozilla) but it doesn't seem to have worked, I
> also tried the same but using the %s "thing" on the end of
> /usr/bin/mozilla, again it didn't work (I did this as root rather than
> user as per the example - so it should be a global change ?), and using
> my windows user mentality, I closed the session to see if that made any
> difference.
> 
> I've also tried the mod that Geoff suggested, but that doesn't seem to
> have worked either?
> 
> Maybe I'm doing something wrong?
> 

Hmmm, got me stumped there - this worked a treat on my box.

Steve.


> regards
> 
> John D.
> 
> 
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