On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:22:05 -0500 Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> dijo: > On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:51:51 -0800 > John Jason Jordan <joh...@comcast.net> wrote:
> > I am on a web page and there is a link for Contact Us. I know little of > > html, but I think the code behind the link is "mailto." If I click on > > it a window pops up on the desktop inviting me to configure Evolution. > > Well, Evolution is not configured and never will be configured. I use > > Sylpheed for my mail reader. I am very happy with Sylpheed and have no > > intention of changing. > > > > So I went into Preferences > Applications in Iceweasel and noted that > > for mailto only Yahoo mail and Gmail were listed. I don't want to use > > either of them; I want it to launch a Compose Message window in > > Sylpheed. So I deleted them. Now when I click on the Contact Us link in > > the web page Iceweasel pops up a little box that says "This link needs > > to be opened with an application: Send to:" -- and then I can click on > > a button to choose the application. > > You don't say what version of IW you're running, but on mine 3.5.5) I > do Prefs / Apps, and then select the dropdown 'Action' menu for the > 'mailto' entry, which includes a choice 'select other'. IIUC, you can't > invoke sylph directly, since there's no way to pass it the '--compose' > option, so just follow these directions: > > http://howto-pages.org/mozilla.php > > Works like a charm. Great web page. I tried the instructions, but I can't get it to work. That is, I copied and pasted the script from that page into a Gedit document and saved it as Iceweasel_mailto_link_to_Sylpheed in ~/. Then I went into Iceweasel's Preferences > Applications > mailto and selected "Other." But it won't take the script in the box. I tried renaming it to something 8.3, but still no joy. I note in Nautilus that the icon for the script indicates it is a script. I seem to recall that you had to make a script executable by right-clicking on the file in Nautilus and then going into Properties. But the Properties dialog box no longer has that option. Maybe I have to make it executable from the command line. Or maybe it already is automatically. In any event, I am still stuck, although this approach seems promising. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
