Google Chrome + Thunderbird + Fedora 17 LXDE?

kona0197 · #1 5th August 2012, 01:46 AM

I want to switch to using Google Chrome instead of using Firefox. Problem is when I click on a link to email someone Thunderbird will not pop up and allow me to write the email. Is there a fix?

kona0197 · #2 8th August 2012, 04:29 AM

No solutions for this at all? I've tried searching the web for answers to no avail.

kona0197 · #3 9th August 2012, 08:16 PM

Anyone know of anywhere else I can ask? Sucks that I am stuck using Firefox as Firefox has become a memory hog. With only 512MB of memory using low resource programs is of interest. Thanks!

secipolla · #4 9th August 2012, 09:06 PM

You should have a 'Preferred Applications' or something similar in the 'Preferences' menu.
Can you change the default mail reader there?

Also Chrome can be set to open email links in gmail, you can disable that:
http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/screens...2-050958pm.php
http://en.zimagez.com/zimage/screens...2-051131pm.php

kona0197 · #5 9th August 2012, 09:42 PM

The system is set to use Thunderbird as the email client. Yet when I click a link to email someone the system opens Firefox then Thunderbird.

secipolla · #6 9th August 2012, 10:48 PM

I can't help much but try this command

Code:

xdg-mime default mozilla-thunderbird.desktop x-scheme-handler/mailto

kona0197 · #7 10th August 2012, 12:10 AM

That command does not work. I get this:

Quote:

[root@HPFamilyPC kona]# xdg-mime default mozilla-thunderbird.desktop x-scheme-handler/mailto
touch: cannot touch `/root/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list': No such file or directory
/bin/xdg-mime: line 804: /root/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list.new: No such file or directory

smr54 · #8 10th August 2012, 01:43 AM

Try in /usr/share/applications/default.list or something like that. There might be entries there.

There might be one in your home directory too--I would run locate default.list and locate mimeapps.list

kona0197 · #9 10th August 2012, 01:57 AM

I have no idea how to do that. Newbie to this stuff.

smr54 · #10 10th August 2012, 03:08 AM

Sorry.

rpm -q mlocate

If it's not installed, install it.

yum -y install mlocate

sudo updatedb

Wait awhile till you get the command prompt back

locate mimeapps

locate defaults.list

On Centos, mimeapps is in my home directory, in a hidden (by putting a dot in front of it) directory called .local/share/applications

The defaults.list is in a few places. In both cases, the one in your home directory might be blank or only have a few items. It's more likely that you'll look at /usr/share/applications/defaults.list. Find the entry that has firefox. I would try, I think, copying that over to my home/.local/share/applications/defaults.list and change it to what I wanted, for example, chromium.

That is, say I find text/html=mozilla-firefox.desktop (taken from my CentOS box.)

I would copy that line into the existing $HOME/.local/share/applications/defaults.list

Then, if I edit it and make a mistake the rest of the system still works, and I can log in as another user and fix it.

kona0197 · #11 10th August 2012, 04:31 AM

I still don't know how to navigate to these places you mention. Very confusing. Sorry.

Here is all I got:

Quote:

[root@HPFamilyPC kona]# rpm -q mlocate
mlocate-0.25-1.fc17.i686
[root@HPFamilyPC kona]# locate mimeapps
/home/kona/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/applications/mimeapps.list
[root@HPFamilyPC kona]# locate defaults.list
/usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list
/usr/share/applications/defaults.list
/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/applications/defaults.list
[root@HPFamilyPC kona]#

sea · #12 10th August 2012, 10:28 AM

Just "where" you change that thunderbird should be used, you have to tell the system it shall use chrome instead of firefox to open links with.

secipolla · #13 10th August 2012, 12:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by kona0197

That command does not work. I get this:

That command must not be run as root.
So run it again as your normal user.

kona0197 · #14 10th August 2012, 07:12 PM

I ran the command as a normal user. It took the command, yet Firefox still opens when I try to email someone while using Chrome.

secipolla · #15 10th August 2012, 08:52 PM

Could you post the contents of all those files:
/home/kona/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/applications/mimeapps.list
/usr/local/share/applications/defaults.list
/usr/share/applications/defaults.list
/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share/applications/defaults.list

The only thing I think of, if it isn't some LXDE issue, is that Firefox is set somewhere to open email links, although that's strange as its desktop file doesn't have that mime type.