Using kmail for "send link" in Firefox [SOLVED]
I've been trying for several days to get Firefox to use kmail when performing the "send link" operation. I could get it to open an empty message in kmail, but not to include the email. Until I discovered a post with the (very non-obvious) advice: 1. In Firefox, go to the URL about:config. 2. Right-click anywhere on the page, then select New -> String. 3. Create a new preference network.protocol-handler.app.mailto with value "kmailservice" (no quotes). Now when you display a web page and either right-click and choose "Send Link" or go to File -> Send Link, you'll get a Kmail message with the desired URL as its body. You can learn all of the above, with one exception, by googling the subject and looking at almost any of the posts. The zinger is the use of kmailservice, which hardly anyone knows about. Hopefully, after this post, more people will know about it. The source of this information was: http://forums.xandros.com/viewtopic.php?t=15269&sid=11d7ed03ffa4fab60881e0ef0d614ab9 For what it's worth, the value of mailto.protocol-handler.app.mailto is not what you'd think: an executable program. I tried many, many different values that merely caused me to get an empty kmail message. I also tried the value "beep" to see if the value of the preference was being executed, and heard nothing. Why kmailservice works or what it means, I have no idea. Paul
On Saturday 17 December 2005 11:25 am, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I've been trying for several days to get Firefox to use kmail when performing the "send link" operation. I could get it to open an empty message in kmail, but not to include the email. Until I discovered a post with the (very non-obvious) advice:
Heh. Missed the thread the past few days, eh? Oh, and... http://www.perfectreign.com/modules/articles/article.php?id=13 -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part
On Saturday 17 December 2005 6:46 pm, Kai Ponte wrote:
On Saturday 17 December 2005 11:25 am, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I've been trying for several days to get Firefox to use kmail when performing the "send link" operation. I could get it to open an empty message in kmail, but not to include the email. Until I discovered a post with the (very non-obvious) advice:
Heh.
Missed the thread the past few days, eh?
There was a recommended value of "kfmclient exec %s" that just didn't work for me. A number of solutions are out there, based on setting the value of network.protocol-handler.app.mailto to a shell script, but when I tried that I found that the script wasn't being called, even if I provided a full pathname for it. I never figured that one out.
Oh, and... http://www.perfectreign.com/modules/articles/article.php?id=13
I missed that one. (The full path for kmailservice isn't needed, though.)
kai www.perfectreign.com
linux - genuine windows replacement part
That has two parsings! Paul
On Sat, 17 Dec 2005 15:46:19 -0800 Kai Ponte
On Saturday 17 December 2005 11:25 am, Paul W. Abrahams wrote:
I've been trying for several days to get Firefox to use kmail when performing the "send link" operation. I could get it to open an empty message in kmail, but not to include the email. Until I discovered a post with the (very non-obvious) advice:
Heh.
Missed the thread the past few days, eh?
Oh, and... http://www.perfectreign.com/modules/articles/article.php?id=13
I tried this and worked for kmail, but I use sylpheed and couldn't get that to work. To launch a compose window in sylpheed, this works from the CLI: /usr/X11R6/bin/sylpheed --compose user@domain.tld but putting "/usr/X11R6/bin/sylpheed --compose" into the network.protocol-handler.app.mailto string don't do squat. Every so weirdly, if I just use "sylpheed --compose" (without the path), it works fine. Buggapalooza! Just thought someone oughta know. Now if I could just get Firefox to use emacs keybindings. Merry unPatRobertson, ken -- "It is not knowable how long that conflict would last, it could last, you know, six days, six weeks. I doubt six months." --Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, 2/7/03
On Monday 19 December 2005 9:31 am, ken wrote:
http://www.perfectreign.com/modules/articles/article.php?id=13
I tried this and worked for kmail, but I use sylpheed and couldn't get that to work. To launch a compose window in sylpheed, this works from the CLI: I have this working on sylpheed-claws at home with no problem.
For the mailto, I have created a script (from either the sylpheed-claws or
SuSE list):
#!/bin/bash
sylpheed --compose "$1"
Then I point claws at the scipt.
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Jerry Feldman
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