Date: 01 Oct 2005 08:36:50 -0400 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: kiffin@gish.demon.nl Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Setting up mime-types globaly ... Message-ID: <44ll1dfm71.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <433D7B80.50604@gish.demon.nl> References: <433AF0F4.20704@gish.demon.nl> <44k6gzyg4d.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <433D7B80.50604@gish.demon.nl>
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Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl> writes: > Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > >Kiffin Gish <kiffin@gish.demon.nl> writes: > > > > > >>What do I have to do to make sure that clicking on links fire up the > >>correct applications. For example: > >> > >>http -> firefox > >>mailto -> thunderbird > >>pls -> xmms > >> > >>If from thunderbird I click on a http-link nothing happens, etc. > >> > >>For some strange reason this stopped working for me all of a sudden. > >> > > > >Since it changed in more than one application, the first guess would > >be a damaged mailcap file. > Meaning? Where is this mailcap file then? How can I repair it? ~/.mailcap, normally, and your applications would have done the setup for it. You may need to consult the application documentation to get everything they expect, but for a start, try adding (or fixing) an entry like: text/html; firefox %s and if that helps, you can look for other types not being handled.
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