Wolfgang Rosenauer said the following on 07/24/2011 04:42 AM:
Hi Anton,
Am 23.07.2011 16:48, schrieb Anton Aylward:
The outcome is my system is screwed up!
Oh, you mean the link between t'bird and FF? That works under XFCE.
But I seem to have replaced a minor problem for which there was a workaround (copy/paste) with a more serious one. I'm not happy. I wish you'd never suggested that test.
Sorry for that. I obviously wasn't aware that Xfce had the "potential" to screw up KDE.
Its happened twice now. I think it has something to do with whatever they share for something like compiz or whatever.... whatever. When I start Xfce its unreadable, the fonts are too small, the panel is too small. Just the same as when I start KDE after wiping out ~/.kde4 By the time I've used the Xfce tools to make it readable the toolbar had gone! Some sensitivity that exists with Xfce and not KDE, and I don't know what. I spent the afternoon in Xfce trying setting the controls and compiz all over the spectrum but could not get the toolbars back. On the whole, Xfce seems a nice DM, If I had a smaller system and needed a lighter DM I'd use it in place of KDE. I've never got on well with Gnome, but I'm disappointed at Xfce's "instability". If anyone knows what I was doing wrong and how to "fix" it, I'd love to hear.
Let me explain why I wanted you to perform that at all: Thunderbird 5 is using/should use GIO to get the default application for HTTP (at least on 11.4). Thunderbird 3.x was using GConf.
Ah. So it _was_ the upgrade to T'Bird 5! The "gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command" is no longer relevant. But wait a moment! I still have # ps -fe | grep gconf anton 3959 1 0 06:40 ? 00:00:00 /usr/lib/GConf/2/gconfd-2 WHY? What starts that? Can I kill it off? Can I stop it from running in the first place? And GIO?
Since Firefox 4 (on openSUSE 11.4) is setting itself as default browser within GConf _and_ GIO (only the openSUSE package is doing that) but _only_ when not running KDE. Under KDE it only sets itself as default browser within the KDE infrastructure which has no effect for Thunderbird. So my take was that Firefox is not your default browser in the GIO subsystem. The easiest fix would be to run Firefox under non-KDE and perform the check.
That makes sense. I wish I could figure out E17 - I'd have used that if I could. Thanks for the follow-up. Ultimately the scr3w-up was mine, but that it was irreversible bothers me, and that the only cure people could recommend was wiping ~/.kde4 depresses me. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org