Re: [Evolution] Clicking on https: links doesn't work

[guenther <guenther rudersport de>]

On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 16:09, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-02-03 at 00:26, guenther wrote:
>
> > Especially check the GConf keys in /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http and
> > /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https. The GUI only sets the former.
> >
> > Something like the following commands should get you going (untested
> > though, as I don't have Gnome 2.4 here):
> >
> > $ gconftool-2 --set --type=string /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/command 'mozilla %s'
> > $ gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/need-terminal false
> > $ gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/enabled true
>
> OK, did all that. However Gnome seems to have decided to ignore
> anything I say to it. The gconftool-2 tool does correctly set 
> .gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/%gconf.xml (NOTE: at the
> moment I'm trying to get http working again, before moving on
> to https). I can verify this via:
>
> gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/url-handlers
>
> However if I look at it via gnome-control-center, I just get the
> same old values as before and no amount of clicking, typing, closing,
> opening, restarting etc. makes any difference.

Well, sounds like an issue not related to Evolution at least. ;)

Have you tried setting the value using the Gnome Control Center and
grepping for that string? Where does it end up?


> I know little of the architecture of Gnome, but maybe there's a demon
> that's supposed to load the file and report to Gnome apps via CORBA
> or whatever, and the demon has died for some reason.

GConf daemon and some Gnome settings daemon, IIRC. But I am not sure
about this. It actually is Gnome 2.4, right?

Have you ever tried running a Gnome Desktop? Does it work then?

...guenther


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