Question about Preferred Applications

Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Wed Aug 22 12:12:06 UTC 2012


On Sun, Aug 19, 2012 at 01:47:02PM -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> On 08/19/2012 01:32 PM, Larry Brower wrote:
> >You should be able to go to settings and then Preferred Applications or
> >Default Applications. It all depends on the DE in use.
> >
> >Which Desktop is she using?
> 
> Both of us are using Xfce.  Firefox isn't listed by default as an email
> application (That's the first thing I checked.) and I don't know if it's
> possible to get it to open up gmail in a compose window with the proper
> email address.

How about using the following in a script:


#!/bin/bash

firefox "https://mail.google.com/mail/?extsrc=mailto&url=${@}"


Where ${@} is any mailto url like this: mailto:user at example.com.

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