mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird

[Steven Stern]

On 04/05/2013 08:42 AM, Kevin Martin wrote:
> On 04/04/13 20:36, Ed Greshko wrote:
>> On 04/05/13 09:19, Steven Stern wrote:
>>> It is.  It's got to be something to do with Chrome, but I can't find any
>>> setting there.
>>
>> There are no settings for this in chrome.  It works fine here....  It is always a puzzle to find out what controls this and if it matters what DE is being used.  Anyway....  One more thing to check....
>>
>> Everything works for me fine using KDE.
>>
>> [egreshko at meimei ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler mailto
>> handler is thunderbird
>> /usr/share/applications/mozilla-thunderbird.desktop
>>
>> And in /usr/share/applications/mozilla-thunderbird.desktop
>>
>> Exec=thunderbird %u
>>
> Check your /usr/bin/xdg-email for a section called run_thunderbird and see if you have a line that says:
> 
> MAILTO=$(echo "$2" | sed 's/^mailto://')
> 
> If not, you probably need to update xdg-utils.
> 
> Kevin
> 
It's there. Again, the issue is NOT that Thunderbird is not getting
launched, but the word "mailto:" appears in the email address if
launched from a link in Chrome.  The address is just fine when the link
comes from Firefox.


-- 
-- Steve