Bug#487862: gnome-terminal doesn't call x-www-browser

Chris Walker chrisw at chiark.greenend.org.uk
Wed Jun 25 09:05:58 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 10:20:02AM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 24 juin 2008 ?? 16:31 +0100, Chris Walker a ??crit :
> > If I right click on a hyperlink (eg http://www.debian.org),
> > gnome-terminal gives me the option to "Open Link". This doesn't work -
> > despite x-www-browser http://www.debian.org opening the web page in
> > iceweasel.

And when I say doesn't work, I mean that it brings a popup box saying 

   Could not open the address "http://www.debian.org": There was an
error launching the default action command associated with this
location.


> 
> The default browser for GNOME is epiphany, not iceweasel. You can change
> the default in the ???Preferred applications??? capplet.

OK - that fixes my immediate problem - thanks. 

I'd still see it as a bug though. I have decided that I want to use
iceweasel, and I don't have epiphany installed - so surely it should
fall back to iceweasel, rather than failing.  

 
Chris








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