Re: [Orgmode] Re: How to setup xdg for org-protocol ?

[Sebastian Rose]

Sébastien Vauban <address@hidden> writes:
> Hi Sebastian,
>
> Sebastian Rose wrote:
>> Julien Fantin <address@hidden> writes:
>>> Thanks Sebastian and David,
>>> I now have firefox working, I had to use that html file though, as firefox
>>> wouldn't bring up the application selection dialog with the test links on
>>> worg.
>>> Will now look into getting xdg-mime to work for chromium ...
>>>> Or, of course "Firefox 3.5 specific (works without installed Gnome
>>>> libraries)".  Worked fine for me (dwm), just one thing that is IIRC
>>>> not mentioned on Worg: You have to click on protocol link to set path
>>>> to emacsclient.  E.g.
>>>>
>>>> cat >> /tmp/test.html
>>>> <a href="org-protocol:///>click</a>
>>>> ^D
>>>>
>>>> and open /tmp/test.html in Firefox.
>>
>> Such links are on the dokumentation page in worg:
>>
>>    http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.php#sec-3_5
>>
>> Was it the mouse click, that made it work?
>>
>> If so, I could add a note on that page `for FF 3.5 click on one of these
>> links ...'.
>
> I had the same problem this morning, with latest FFx on latest Ubuntu.
>
> I never had the window asking for which application to launch when clicking on
> a `org-protocol://' link...
>
> until I re-did the manipulation with:
>
>
> gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/org-protocol/command 
> '/usr/bin/emacsclient %s' --type String
> gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/org-protocol/enabled --type 
> Boolean true
>
> (described on 
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol#All_Firefox_versions_.28requires_certain_Gnome_libraries_to_be_installed.29)
>
> "Next time you click a link of protocol-type foo you will be asked which
> application to open it with." : for me, after the above step (`gconftool-2'),
> just entering `org-protocol://' in a new tab was sufficient to ask, this time,
> for which application to run. Finally...


OK then.  I'll adjust the docs this evening accordingly.


Thanks for your reports.


Best wishes

  Sebastian