Daniel wrote:
mozilla-lists.mbou...@spamgourmet.com wrote:
I've just installed SeaMonkey from Ubuntuzilla on Linux Mint 18.3
MATE, using the instructions at
<https://sourceforge.net/p/ubuntuzilla/wiki/Main_Page/#installation>.
On starting SeaMonkey, it prompts to "Use SeaMonkey as the default
client for:" with "Browser" and "Email" preselected. I click OK, and
it does appear to be correctly set as the default application - .html
files, http: URLs etc. from other applications open with SeaMonkey.
However, every time I start SeaMonkey it prompts again to set it as
the default client. I /could/ just untick "Always perform this check
when starting SeaMonkey" and I expect it wouldn't prompt again, but
I'm pretty sure this prompt is only supposed to appear if SeaMonkey is
not already the default.
Ubuntuzilla sets up an entry for SeaMonkey in the applications menu
(file at /usr/share/applications/seamonkey-mozilla-build.desktop), but
I'm not sure if there's something else that needs to be configured in
MATE to enable SeaMonkey to detect that it's already set as the
default browser and mail client? Or perhaps this is a problem with
SeaMonkey itself, possibly related to
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1036903>?
I did notice that having SeaMonkey set itself as the default client
creates a ~/.local/share/applications/userapp-SeaMonkey-WYLOAZ.desktop
file and adds references to that into ~/.config/mimeapps.list, rather
than referencing the seamonkey-mozilla-build.desktop which defines the
menu item. Editing ~/.config/mimeapps.list to point to
seamonkey-mozilla-build.desktop doesn't make any difference though.
I've also tried using xdg-settings and xdg-mime to configure similar
mappings, and selecting SeaMonkey as the default web browser and mail
reader at Mint's Menu > Preferences > Preferred Applications, but
SeaMonkey still prompts to be set as the default client every time it
starts.
Has anyone got the default client check to work on MATE, or is
disabling "Always perform this check when starting SeaMonkey" the only
way of avoiding the prompt every time? I don't really mind doing that;
it would just be nice to have it work properly if it just needs a bit
of configuration.
Thanks,
Mark.
Mark, I think your only recourse is to tick the box.
Tick or untick? With it ticked, SeaMonkey prompts to be set as default
every time it starts, which is rather annoying.
Logically, if you start up some other Browser/Mail Agent, it would do a
similar check and present you with a similar screen, allowing you to
change your default Browser/Mail Agent.
I'm not sure I follow. If I start some other browser with similar
options, I would set that one not to be default and not to check,
leaving SeaMonkey as the default. SeaMonkey (with "Always perform this
check..." set) should then detect that it's still the default and not
prompt. At least that's what I'd expect, and how it works under Windows.
On the Linux Mint MATE machine I'm setting up, SeaMonkey always prompts
to set itself as the default client, even when it is already the default:
- Start SeaMonkey
- OK the prompt to set it as default browser and mail client
- Close SeaMonkey
- Start SeaMonkey
- SeaMonkey prompts to be set as the default browser and mail client,
even though it has just been set as the default and nothing has changed
that.
Ideally I'd leave "Always perform this check..." set, so that if
something else did get set to be the default, SeaMonkey would detect
that and offer to set itself back to being the default. Disabling
"Always perform this check..." would prevent that from happening, but at
the moment seems to be the only way to avoid being prompted every time
SeaMonkey starts even when it's already the default. Not too bad if
that's the way it is; I'm unlikely to accidentally set something else to
be the default, and if I did I could just set the default back to
SeaMonkey. But if there's just some bit of configuration I'm missing to
make SeaMonkey's default check work it would be nice to do.
--
Mark.
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