Re: prefer application on Gnome Desktop

[Daniel Pittman]

Byung-Hee HWANG <bh@izb.knu.ac.kr> writes:

> Hi, i use Emacs on Gnome Desktop (FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE). In Gnome, there is
> the config named "prefer application" in which we can decide the best
> application for us such as mailer, webbrowser. The default value in mailer
> is "Evolution". By the way i would like to switch to Gnus from Evolution. So
> how can i change without any errors?
>
> First time, i tried as like "emacs -f gnus". But there is no action with
> "mailto:"; link. The tried "emacs -f gnus-no-server %s". Still problems..

I wrote a small shell script to handle this, because there wasn't a trivial
mechanism to wire up Gnus and the desktop environment:

#!/bin/sh
# Send a 'mailto:' link into my mail client...
exec gnuclient -batch -eval \
  "(compose-mail-other-frame \"$1\" \"$2\" nil nil '((delete-frame)))"

The system was configured to pass the 'to' address as argument one, and the
'subject' as argument two — Opera supported the later, but KDE didn't.

You might want to use a different interface; I had that create and destroy a
frame so that it behaved the way I liked.

Regards,
        Daniel
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