On Fri 13 Feb 2015 at 10:18:10 +0000, Curt wrote: > On 2015-02-13, Charles Blair <c-bl...@illinois.edu> wrote: > > I tinkered with "Preferences/Applications". Did not > > do anything about a special kind of Preference. If > > this message gets posted, the thing worked :) > > > > If so, thanks! > > > > I never click on those mailto links myself, but I followed my own advice > for once and chose alpine as my mail client ('cause it's my main mail client) > from the drop down menu (where it had defaulted to gmail?), clicked on a > mailto link and ... it didn't work. Nothing. > > This must illustrate an ironic principle of which I am > currently unaware.
Adapted from /usr/lib/mutt/mailto-mutt; mailto-alpine: #!/bin/bash exec x-terminal-emulator -e alpine "$@" > But how would or does "it" know to open a terminal if you don't use > a "wrapper script" like Brian suggested? Or am I missing something? > Why am I seeing so many mutt users in forums and elsewhere using this > kind of script? If they are not using a DE this is the simplest (and maybe only) way of doing it. A terminal window is drawn and mutt is executed from it. If a DE is used this excecution of a terminal and mutt is taken care of invisibly by a .desktop file. Basically, it is the same as using a script. But don't expect a .desktop file to do it for you with alpine in Xfce or GNOME. As far as I can see one isn't provided. So you either devise your own .desktop file or use a script. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150214165550.gd21...@copernicus.demon.co.uk