Mailcap
A question regarding the /etc/mailcap file. The problem involves an app
written with the wxWidgets libraries, that uses the mailcap file as a means
of launching a web browser. In this case, the app does nothing when the
'launch a browser' button is clicked. The author of the app has posted
several things to look for in the /etc/mailcap file (text/html, text/*, etc)
and while all those lines are present in mailcap (no ~/.mailcap file
present), both the system generated update-mime version as well as being
added in the user section manually, it seems to have no effect. A RedHat
user who was able to use the app successfully posted his mailcap file. Using
his copy, or cutting and pasting the pertinent lines, it still won't work on
this Debian system, nor on Suse, Gentoo, and even a couple other RedHat
machines. I've tried with Debian using KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, and twm
as window managers on the suggestion that some window manages may circumvent
the wxWidgets scheme using their own file associations or 'preferred app'
methods instead. There are no error messages generated by the app in
question, and other than the browser issue, it works prefectly. Aside from
missing or incorrect entries in mailcap itself, what else could be causing
this?
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