[vox-tech] handling urls in Thunderbird on Kubuntu

Dave Margolis dave at silogram.net
Mon Sep 25 18:48:03 PDT 2006


Micah J. Cowan wrote:
>
> Here are a couple things you could check:
> 
>  - Do you have BROWSER set in your environment?
>  - What is the output of "namei x-www-browser"?

$ namei x-www-browser
f: x-www-browser
  ? x-www-browser - No such file or directory (2)

> 
> If x-www-browser appears to point at conquerer, you'll want to do a:
>   sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

Did that.  Choose /usr/bin/firefox

That didn't change the output of "namei x-www-browser" but it did fix 
the problem.  Now I'm reading some man pages to figure out what the hell 
I just did.

Thanks so much!
Dave


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