Re: gnome MIME types

[Philipp Schulte <p.schulte@matrix.uni-duisburg.de>]

On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 12:00:30PM +0000, Gary Coady wrote: 

> On Tue, Jan 02, 2001 at 01:16:49AM +0100, Philipp Schulte wrote:
> > I have Netscape 4.76 and Mozilla 0.6 installed on my potato system. I
> > wanted to change the MIME types in the Gnome Control-Center so that
> > html files are viewed with Mozilla by default.
> > But changing the MIME type for html to "/home/phil/mozilla/mozilla %f"
> > didn't work. If I try to open a html file I get an "Unable to open"
> > message-box.
> > Am I missing something? I thought of symlinking "gnome-moz-remote" to
> > Mozilla but there should be a better way.
> 
> I don't know how viewing HTML files interacts with the MIME types, but you
> can at least get gnome-moz-remote to open mozilla instead by creating
> ~/.gnome/gnome-moz-remote
> and putting in the contents
> 
> [Mozilla]
> filename=/path/to/mozilla/bin/mozilla

Thanks, I thought of something like that but it's not a nice solution.
Phil