On Sunday 10 January 2016 02:16:54 pm Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 10 January 2016 17:16:37 deloptes wrote: > > Gene Heskett wrote: > > > Greetings list; > > > > > > iceweasel seems to have gone to the dogs with all the libssl updates > > > as they try to sort the latest exploit. > > > > > > So I am driven to konqueror, which usually works, but when clicking > > > on a link to follow in kmail, kmail seems to be passing konqueror a > > > link to the display buffer in /var/tmp, as opposed to just passing > > > the text link I clicked on. > > > > > > It does work ok if I slide the mouse highlight the link, switch to > > > the konqueror screen, and middle click paste it into the address bar > > > of konqueror. > > > > > > Am I the only one with this problem? Lisi seems to think so. > > > > > > Also, and it took a while to find this, the TDE default applications > > > menu, and the default applications database konqueror uses, seems to > > > be two separate databases, which was very confusing because I could > > > be looking at konqueror, clicking on a sublink to try and locate a > > > download or docs directory on some external site, and konqueror was > > > passing it to iceweasel! Perhaps this explains why trying to change > > > the "default" application in KDE, and not having it take effect > > > until a root session, editing something in /etc/kde was also done. > > > That was a PITA. > > > > > > Maybe a bug/feature request is in order? > > > > Hi Gene, > > there are two parts here. > > > > The default application in TDE Control Center is to set what you would > > use as HTML reader. This means you can get off konqueror (default) and > > use something else (firefox, chrom, etc) > > > > The other one is the file association (mime). > > Here you have also two parts - one is in konqueror (TDE) and the other > > is firefox/iceweasel. > > On a Debian system the default application is set with the 'alternatives' system 'ls /etc/alternatives/' shows what are settable. 'update-alternatives --config x-window browser' may help. I have the same behavior as Gene, but only from using an app that is different than the logged in user. If I 'su - <user>' and start apps from the cli. The logged in user has no issues. I have not traced this down yet, seems like an environment or PATH issue...maybe? -- Greg