Bug#666145: Displays "Fatal: cannot retrieve browser command!" when a link is clicked

2016-05-15 Thread David MichaelSmith
So try using gnome-openhttp://www.google.com from a command-line and report back what happens. Also try using gnome-open mailto:666...@bugs.debian.org and see if that works too. If you don't have gnome-open on your system, use xdg-open instead. Should give you the

Bug#666145: Displays Fatal: cannot retrieve browser command! when a link is clicked

2014-04-21 Thread Carnë Draug
On 20 April 2014 02:35, David Smith sidic...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/19/2014 08:26 PM, David Smith wrote: Can you please check Tools - Preferences - Browser - Browser And naturally I forgot to mention that the Default Browser listed in Liferea refers *SPECIFICALLY* to the Gnome desktop default

Bug#666145: Displays Fatal: cannot retrieve browser command! when a link is clicked

2014-04-21 Thread David Smith
On 04/21/2014 09:53 AM, Carnë Draug wrote: On 20 April 2014 02:35, David Smith sidic...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed, I have upgraded from Debian Wheezy and kept the same home directory. Changing the browser from Default browser to x-www-browser as you mentioned fixed the problem. However, my

Bug#666145: Displays Fatal: cannot retrieve browser command! when a link is clicked

2014-04-20 Thread Paul Gevers
On 20-04-14 03:35, David Smith wrote: that's probably bad practice. Yes, it is. (Unless it is needed to migrate setting formats, but that usually is done by programs themselves). Paul signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Bug#666145: Displays Fatal: cannot retrieve browser command! when a link is clicked

2014-04-19 Thread Carnë Draug
Package: liferea Version: 1.10.8-1 Followup-For: Bug #666145 Dear maintainer, The original report and all comments are related to the version in Debian Wheezy (currently stable). This comment is just to report the issue is still present in Jessie with liferea version 1.10.8. Carnë Draug --

Bug#666145: Displays Fatal: cannot retrieve browser command! when a link is clicked

2014-04-19 Thread David Smith
On 04/19/2014 07:05 PM, Carnë Draug wrote: Package: liferea Version: 1.10.8-1 Followup-For: Bug #666145 Dear maintainer, The original report and all comments are related to the version in Debian Wheezy (currently stable). This comment is just to report the issue is still present in Jessie

Bug#666145: Displays Fatal: cannot retrieve browser command! when a link is clicked

2014-04-19 Thread David Smith
On 04/19/2014 08:26 PM, David Smith wrote: Can you please check Tools - Preferences - Browser - Browser And naturally I forgot to mention that the Default Browser listed in Liferea refers *SPECIFICALLY* to the Gnome desktop default browser.. ie: It would require the desktop-file-utils package

Bug#666145: Displays Fatal: cannot retrieve browser command! when a link is clicked

2013-01-04 Thread David Smith
tags 666145 confirmed found 1.8.6-1.1 thanks It seems that if you don't have desktop-file-utils package installed then the gnome default browser library call in liferea fails and gives the error in the bug report, even if the user has a gnome default web browser properly configured.

Bug#666145: Displays Fatal: cannot retrieve browser command! when a link is clicked

2012-03-29 Thread Matt Kraai
Package: liferea Version: 1.8.3-0.1 Hi, When I click on a link in Liferea (either the title of a post or a link in a post's body), the link is not opened in a browser and Fatal: cannot retrieve browser command! is displayed on Liferea's status bar. -- Matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to