mailto links from Chrome w/Thunderbird

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 05/04/13 17:59, Steven Stern wrote:
> 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.
>
>
I've had the same problem with google-chrome under xfce. When I selected:

Applications Menu -> Settings -> Preferred Applications

Mail Reader was shown as "Mozilla Thunderbird" but when I changed it to: 
/usr/bin/thunderbird "%s"

the problem vanished.

-- 
Erik

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