Re: FTP and GNOME
"Eric G . Miller" <egm2@jps.net> writes:
> On Fri, May 26, 2000 at 09:40:16PM +0200, Felix Natter wrote:
> > Pat Mahoney <pat7@gmx.net> writes:
> >
> > > On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 11:26:45AM -0500, Camilo Alejandro Arboleda wrote:
> > > I also cannot get a URL to open with anything but Netscape. I edited
> > > the properties of the link to no avail. Perhaps it's a bug? I can
> > > edit the caption, so I thought I'd find were gnome stores this info
> > > and directly edit that file, but I could not find it. It stores
> > > nothing but the URL in the actual file which is:
> > > ~/.gnome-desktop/name-of-dsktop-shortcut
> >
> > Try the section "URL handlers" in the control-center.
> >
>
> I played with that after reading this post. I couldn't make it work.
> Is there a trick you know of? I tried:
>
> ftp xterm -e ncftp "%s"
>
> but netscrape still launched! Then I messed with using urlview as the
> "default" handler but I still got netscape! I suppose with some
> hacking, urlview could be made to do this. But, I wasn't inclined to
> fool around with it any longer.
try posting to a gnome-newsgroup (or comp.os.linux.x if there is no such).
(I cannot try this because I don't have the file-manager installed)
--
Felix Natter
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