Dan McGhee wrote:
Currently I can neither use the mailto function in Firefox-1.0.6 nor can
I get Thunderbird-1.0.6 to open URL's in Firefox. As I recall I have
not been able to do this since I built LFS and BLFS. I'm using LFS 6.0
and BLFS 6.0. However, I installed firefox and thunderbird using the
development version of the book a couple of weeks ago.
This are tricky to set up, but one simple thing you can do is set up
wrapper scripts. At work we use Solaris, and damned if it doesn't make
you bludgeon it to do anything you want. Anyway, I created 2 scripts
that firefox and thunderbird call when they want to open the URL or
write the mailto:, respectively.
First, here's the wrapper that thunderbird calls to open a URL in a new
tab in firefox.
[10:56 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat firefox-wrapper
#!/bin/sh
firefox -remote "openURL("$@",new-tab)" ||
firefox "$@"
The first line tells firefox to open a new tab with the URL. openURL is
mozilla code to construct the actual http:// call or whatever. -remote
will try to attach itself to an already running process. new-tab could
also be new-window if you prefer. If there's not a firefox running
already, it falls back to starting a new one with the specified URL.
Now, here's the wrapper that firefox calls to fire up a new mail message
in thunderbird.
[10:58 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat thunderbird-wrapper
#!/bin/sh
MAILTO=`echo $@ | sed -e 's|mailto:||g'`
thunderbird -remote "mailto(${MAILTO})" ||
thunderbird -ProfileManager -compose "$@"
Similar to above, but I couldn't get it to work in an already running
process unless I stripped off the mailto: from the email address. The
fallback uses -ProfileManager because I have multiple thunderbird
profiles at work. That's definitely optional. It would choose your
default profile without it.
Hope that helps a little, although I understand if you just want to get
it to integrate into the desktop.
Dan
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