From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 17 22:57:06 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7AC916A424 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:57:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) Received: from relay0.av-mx.com (relay0.av-mx.com [137.118.16.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A65143D58 for ; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:57:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from micahjon@ywave.com) X-Virus-Scan-Time: 0 Received: from [137.118.16.61] (HELO mx0.av-mx.com) by relay0.av-mx.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with SMTP id 204641181 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 17 Mar 2006 17:57:03 -0500 Received: (qmail 27212 invoked from network); 17 Mar 2006 22:57:02 -0000 Received: from dsl-12-178-98-182.ywave.com (HELO ?192.168.1.64?) (micahjon@ywave.com@12.178.98.182) by 0 with SMTP; 17 Mar 2006 22:57:02 -0000 X-CLIENT-IP: 12.178.98.182 X-CLIENT-HOST: dsl-12-178-98-182.ywave.com Message-ID: <441B3EB7.2090809@ywave.com> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 14:56:55 -0800 From: Micah User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eric Schuele References: <441B34E9.7090305@yahoo.com> <441B3932.6020509@computer.org> In-Reply-To: <441B3932.6020509@computer.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Steel City Phantom , freebsd general questions Subject: Re: Few thunderbird questions X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2006 22:57:06 -0000 Eric Schuele wrote: > Steel City Phantom wrote: >> ok, bsd 6, kde 3.5, thunderbird 1.5, firefox 1.5 >> >> few things that are slightly annoying in thunderbird that if someone >> knows how to fix, i would be very happy. >> >> 1) when i click on a url link in thunderbird, nothing happens. how to >> i have it open firefox and go to that url > > I think the following in ~/.thunderbird//user.js > (which may not exist by default): > > user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.http", "/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox"); > user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.https", "/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox"); > user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.ftp", "/usr/X11R6/bin/firefox"); > > Mind the wrap... its three lines. > >> 2) when mail arrives, it does a system beep. is there any way to map >> that to a KDE event so i can put some kind of meaningful sound to it? >> > > Can't help here. Edit->Preference->General->Play Sound Note: some people have problems with it. It didn't work for me for the longest time, then suddenly started working after a port upgrade. HTH, Micah