[Users] Browser problem.

[john Culleton]

On Fri, 18 May 2012 09:27:42 -0400
john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 17 May 2012 16:35:12 -0600
> Charles Curley <charlescurley at charlescurley.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Thu, 17 May 2012 17:48:38 -0400
> > john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > Set up Claws on my new system an have a problem with the browser.
> > > When I click on a url in an email it should automatically go to
> > > my preferred browser. But it doesn't. I have to right click and
> > > save the url, then paste it into Seamonkey, my browser of choice.
> > > Just clicking on the URL will not cause Seamonkey to appear and
> > > go to the url. 
> > > 
> > > I set up C-M as follows:
> > > Configuration->preferences->External Programs->Browser->seamonkey
> > > '%s' I also tried /usr/bin/seamonkey as the address but that
> > > didn't help.
> > 
> > You didn't indicate your window manager/desktop, so I'll assume it's
> > Gnome. I'll also assume that you know that seamonkey is in fact
> > installed.
> > 
> > Is seamonkey in fact in /usr/bin? Try "which seamonkey" and put that
> > into the external programs setup. If that doesn't show anything,
> > "locate seamonkey | grep seamonkey$" to see where it might be
> > lurking.
> > 
> > On my version of CM, I also have the option of using the system
> > default browser, www-browser. Better, the results of "which
> > www-browser". That is an artifact of the debian alternatives system;
> > "man update-alternatives".
> > 
> > On Ubuntu with Gnome, you can see the Gnome default (different from
> > the debian alternatives default) with System-> Preferences->
> > Preferred Applications.
> > 
> 
> I apologize for not indicating my platform. I use Slackware Linux
> 13.37, but my gui is Trinity, a KDE 3.5 lookalike. I did discover that
> seamonkey  is in /usr/local/bin, but that directory is on the search
> path as confirmed by your suggestion of "which www-browser" which
> listed the search path. 
> 
> I also have KDE4 but I doubt if that will be any different. I'll test
> it however.
> 

Subtle error. I managed to have seamonkey in two directories:
/usr/local/bin and /usr/bin/.
The search finds /usr/local/bin first. That instance in turn could not
find the support directories. I deleted that instance and now
claws mail uses /usr/bin/seamonkey. Now it works.

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