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Asked: 2016-02-17 05:31:30 +0800 CST

xdg-email can't find thunderbird

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Clicking a mailto link in chromium-browser it executes

xdg-email mailto:[email protected]

(or maybe without "mailto:", which seems to be the same thing). In my case this opens kmail instead of thunderbird, and if I purge kmail it just opens nothing (throwing "Could not find 'kmail' executable." in terminal). Of course I made thunderbird my standard mail application, and

xdg-open mailto:[email protected]

does open thunderbird correctly. How can I fix xdg-email (or worse, make chromium use xdg-open instead)?

PS: I found this hack, but there should be a clean way, don't you think?

chromium

1 Answers

  1. You could try reinstall both, and then again set the default, and type this in the terminal:

    sudo apt-get install thunderbird

sudo apt-get install kmail

    and then enter this

    sudo dkms-reconfigure chromium

    and it might work fine this way.

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