Re: Why doesn't iceweasel work with iceape
On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, godo wrote:
For finding some app.: 'whereis'
$ whereis iceape
iceape: /usr/bin/iceape /etc/iceape /usr/lib/iceape /usr/share/iceape
/usr/share/man/man1/iceape.1.gz
I had previously believed that it could be found when finding the
Properties of an application; at present, I have the iceape mail
composer icon included in my panel at the bottom of the screen, on two
of my systems, and, by clicking on the icon with the non-dominant mouse
button (I had believed that I could previously do it with the listing
of the application in the menu entry, but that appears to now not
include a Properties option), it displays a Properties window for the
application.
However, as previously mentioned (in a posting by me, in this thread),
in viewing the Properties window, the Properties window lists the
following information:
"Type" - "Application"
"Name" - "Iceape Mail Composer"
"Command" - "iceape -compose"
"Comment" - "Iceape Mail Composer"
but not the path to the application.
Perhaps, if the Properties window included the path for the command,
e.g.,
"Command" - "usr/bin/iceape -compose"
which would be quite useful if it was possible to directly launch the
mail composer from another application, such as I had been seeking, or,
even, it would show the path for iceape itself, which could have been
used as it is now configured.
In inputting the option
"Command" - "usr/bin/iceape -compose"
and trying it, I note that it still launched the iceape web browser
window, with the mailto command as the URL, in addition to the iceape
mail composer window opening to create a new email message.
Anyway, thank you again for your help - it means that I can now launch
the iceape mail composer application, by clicking on a mailto link in an
iceweasel web browser window, which was what I was seeking.
--
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
..............
"So once you do know what the question actually is,
you'll know what the answer means."
- Deep Thought,
Chapter 28 of Book 1 of
"The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy:
A Trilogy In Four Parts",
written by Douglas Adams,
published by Pan Books, 1992
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