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Tobias
Asked: 2020-05-10 10:32:20 +0800 CST

registering sip as protocol in Ubuntu 18 to use TbDialout with Thunderbird and Ekiga

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Using Ubuntu 18 with Gnome, i would like to to connect Thundebird addressbook with ekiga, using a SIP provider for phonecalls.

Ekiga works fine standanlone.

TBDialout (Version 1.8.0pre1, for thunderbird 68.7.0) is configured with a userdefined url with this form: 

sip:%NUM%@sip.finotel.com

Pushing the call-Button out of the thunderbird addressbook leads to an error: sip is not a registered protocol or not allowed in this context.

Following the TBDialout-Wiki, i registered SIP protocol https://www.oak-wood.co.uk/faq/content/5/14/en/how-do-i-register-a-url-handler-for-the-sip-protocol-in-gnome-_-ubuntu.html

gconftool-2 -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/sip/command '/usr/bin/ekiga -c %s' --type String

I am not shure, whether this is the proper way to register an uri protocol in ubuntu 18/gnome. And i am not shure, wether this is the reason for the error message.

But it nevertheless still runs into the same error message.

Any suggestions would be great ...

gnome thunderbird sip ekiga

1 Answers

  1. Solved. You still configure TBDialout with a userdefined url as written above.

    But the method described above how to register SIP protocol as an url-handler is outdated.

    Now you do this this way:

    Create a file ~/.local/share/applications/sipurl.desktop and put this in it:

    [Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Exec=/usr/bin/ekiga -c %u
Name=sip-url
Comment=sip-url handler
Icon=
Categories=Application;Network;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/sip;

    Then run

    xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler sip sipurl.desktop

    Credits go to Chris Hastie, author of TbDialout.

    https://github.com/tipichris/TBDialOut/issues/12

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