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Re: Gnome configuration



On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 08:04:59PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I am trying to make a configuration change in Gnome, but I'm not 
> sure where I should look to make the change.
> 
> My problem is that I use gnome-terminal to run an instance of 
> mutt to read my email. I like gnome-terminal for this because
> email hot links to web pages are highlighted and underlined *and*
> if I cntrl-click on the hot-link, it starts a web browser and 
> opens the URL. But, it used to be that the browser was selectable
> via alternatives. Now it seems not to be. I'm pretty sure that
> this is not a function of mutt. It doesn't seem to exist if I
> run mutt in a different terminal emulation window. I have hacked
> a change that works: I replaced /usr/bin/epiphany with a soft-link
> of the same name that points to opera. But this is really a bad
> way to do what I want. I've looked at gconf, but none of the 
> editing software seems to work and I can't find any mention of
> epiphany in the xml files that seem to hold gnome configuration.
> Maybe I just missed it. 
> 
> Where does gnome-terminal get the datum that it should start
> epiphany? What is the correct way to change that to opera?
> 
> TIA
> 

Responding to my own post with some useful info that I should have
included in the original: I'm running Sarge. All software is from
sarge repository, except for opera, which is not really involved
in the problem (I think (?) ).


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Paul E Condon           
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