default browser and email

[ahurd]

In system settings I reset browser and email to FF and Thunderbird but Konq still pops up as browser. What to do?

[opie]

Re: default browser and email

In a terminal window (kmenu-system-konsole) paste the following

update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

and follow the instructions

[ahurd]

Re: default browser and email

What about email? And why doesn't system settings work?

[opie]

Re: default browser and email

I'm still trying to figure out the interactions between the desktop managers and the alternatives system so I can't give a good answer to that.

What exactly are you trying to do with your email setup that isn't functioning as you would like?

[ahurd]

Re: default browser and email

Just want TB to be default email so eg if I click email link on the web TB will pop up. Thanks.

[opie]

Re: default browser and email

Since you have made firefox your browser I would think you would want to configure it as your default email client in firefox configuration, not in kde (I don't think ff pays attention to kde settings).

Looking at mozilla knowledgebase
Try
about:config
in ff address bar.

Right click within the window and select new- string
For preference name:

network.protocol-handler.app.mailto

click ok and then enter the full path to your email client in the popup dialogue. Thunderbird is probably in /usr/bin.

[Fintan]

Re: default browser and email

Alternately you can do this:
http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?p=1524745

and / or read this:
http://penguin.ch/dokuwiki/doku.php/...family_affairs

[Ace2016]

Re: default browser and email

Heres what i do to set my browser as opera, afterwards apps like konversation use opera as the browser:

kcontrol > kde components > component chooser

Then pick Web Borwser and set to Firefox with whatever arguments are needed, i use opera -newpage to get opera to open the link in a new tab

You can also edit the email client there, thats about it really, stuff like pidgin have an option to set a custom browser

Anyone know where gnome apps look for their browser?