On 06/21/2015 05:50 PM, Ken Heard wrote: > Before running Christian's xdg-mime command as root I ran it as my user. > Since it did not have the desired effect I then ran it as root with the > result described above. > > However a few minutes ago I read the manual page for sdg-mime. I then > discovered a file ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list. This file > has three lines in it: > > [Default Applications] > x-scheme-handler/http=iceweasel.desktop > x-scheme-handler/https=iceweasel.desktop > > This command Christian gave me did not work on 19 or 20 June and is not > working today. What does the following do? (as your local user) xdg-open https://www.debian.org/ If that opens Debian's Homepage in Iceweasel, the xdg-mime associations work properly and it's a problem with Icedove. If not, I'm unsure what the cause is. > I am not sure what to do next. Could you check Icedove configuration? Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Tab: General -> Config Editor -> "I know what I'm doing" then see what the settings are for (as far as they exist): network.protocol-handler.app.http network.protocol-handler.app.https network.protocol-handler.expose-all network.protocol-handler.expose.http network.protocol-handler.expose.https network.protocol-handler.external.http network.protocol-handler.external.https Christian
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