[Users] Replying to some links in an e-mail opens KMail rather than Claws-Mail
Andrej Kacian
andrej at kacian.sk
Wed Jul 20 21:46:12 CEST 2016
On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:25:44 -0500
»Q« <boxcars at gmx.net> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 21:06:23 +0200
> Andrej Kacian <andrej at kacian.sk> wrote:
>
> > On Wed, 20 Jul 2016 14:00:54 -0500
> > »Q« <boxcars at gmx.net> wrote:
> >
> > > If
> > >
> > > $ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/mailto
> > >
> > > returns kmail2, it may help to try to change it with xdg-settings.
> > > I'd rather not give syntax for xdg-settings -- you're better off
> > > dealing with its man page than with me, heh.
> >
> > No, over here it doesn't print anything, just returns 4:
> >
> > ticho at penny:~$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/mailto
> > ticho at penny:~$ echo $?
> > 4
>
> FWIW (maybe not anything) I get
>
> $ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/mailto
> claws-mail.desktop
>
> and clicking on a mailto link in a Fancy-rendered message opens a Claws
> composition window for me.
>
> I don't know how any of this works, so I won't give any advice. All
> I've ever done to set a default handler was go through KDE's system
> settings as described earlier in the thread, once under KDE4 and then
> again after moving to KDE5.
I think "kmail2" might be a builtin default value in KDE, if no other
handler is configured.
--
Andrej
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