Re: URL Handlers?

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Owen Taylor <otaylor@redhat.com> writes:

> Ross Yahnke <rcy@spin.doit.wisc.edu> writes:
> 
> > Hi - Hope this is the appropriate forum for this question... I note that
> > URLs are underlined and the cursor turns to a hand when I mouse over them
> > whenever displayed in some terminal window on my RH 6.1 Dell box. But
> > clicking on them does nothing. 
> > 
> > There is a URL Handlers section in the Gnome Control Center, but I can't
> > find much info on this. 
> > 
> > Is there a way to enable double-clicking on a URL to go straight into
> > Netscape?
> 
> This is fixed in updates to GNOME you'll find under "Bug Fixes" on
> http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/. (Yes, I know they are a bit
> big.)

I should elaborate -- to actually activate the url, you need to either
control click, or right click on it on select "Open in Browser" from
the menu.

What I was saying was that these functions do not work correctly with
the gnome-libs shipped in 6.1, and that is fixed in the errata.

Regards,
                                        Owen