At Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:17:59 +0000 CentOS mailing list <centos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hey > > On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 9:52 PM, Robert Heller <heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > For some awful reason (can someone explain why?), the RHEL/CentOS build > > of firefox is hardwired to use evolution as its mailto client. With FF > > 2.<mumble> this was fixable with an about:config setting. With > > 3.0.<mumble>, it seems not. What is the proper way of fixing this? > > > > *I* ended up doing a 'sudo rpm -e evolution' and then doing a > > 'sudo ln -s <myfirefoxmailtohandler> /usr/bin/evolution'. This is a > > truely ugly/bad solution, but it is the only one I know of. Please tell > > be of a better solution. (Hopefully not one that requires me to > > download the firefox SRPM and hacking the .spec file -- re-building building > > firefox from sources is non-trivial -- I'd *rather* drop random symlinks > > into /usr/bin, bad as that is.) > > > > *I'm* tempted to report this as a serious *bug* (I really consider it so). > > It seams like something is not quite right. But what works is that in > the WM you set your default email program to what ever you want. Might You mean *desktop* manager. *Window* managers would not have anything to do with something like that. *I* don't use a desktop manager (I don't use gnome or kde). > be something where Firefox is trying to be clever in gnome. Like with > Network Manager. > > Cheers Didi > > > > > -- > > Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 > > Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System > > http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows > > heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > CentOS mailing list > > CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx > > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > > > > > -- Robert Heller -- 978-544-6933 Deepwoods Software -- Download the Model Railroad System http://www.deepsoft.com/ -- Binaries for Linux and MS-Windows heller@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- http://www.deepsoft.com/ModelRailroadSystem/
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