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Preferred Application does not work
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED

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Description Edmund 2018-02-28 17:57:33 CET
Setting the mail reader to Claws mail doesn't do anything.
A Thunderbird windows always opens and ask to setup an account.

BTW Thunderbird is not shown in my menu at all.
Comment 1 drjoms 2019-01-19 20:02:45 CET
I can confirm, same problem here.
I have thunderbird, which is desired.

Since recently email links pop up as evolution, which is not desired.

Settings -> Settings Manager -> Preferred Applications     does absolutely nothing.


Version 4.12 
AMD64 Gentoo
Comment 2 drjoms 2019-01-19 20:04:46 CET
forgot to mention, evolution got installed just recently too.
Comment 3 Skunnyk editbugs 2019-04-16 23:07:06 CEST
It is handled by exo-preferred-applications / exo-open, not libxfce4ui, reassigning
Comment 4 Skunnyk editbugs 2019-04-16 23:21:08 CEST
I can't reproduce.
thunderbird/claws mail installed, if I select Thunderbird in "Settings -> Settings Manager -> Preferred Applications", thunderbird is run for mail, and same for Claws Mail.

Which version of "exo" do you have ?
What is the output of ".config/xfce4/helpers.rc"
What is run wtih "exo-open --launch MailReader"
Does it work with xdg-open random@email.com ? Also check your "~/.config/mimeapps.list" file
Comment 5 Tamaranch 2019-04-19 23:19:56 CEST
Hi, exo-preferred-applications does nothing but gives me the following console message :
/usr/bin/exo-preferred-applications: 11: exec: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/exo-1/exo-helper-1: not found
This appends after an upgrade from Ubuntu 18.10 to 19.04, I use libexo-helpers 0.12.4-1.
Comment 7 Skunnyk editbugs 2019-04-21 22:40:32 CEST
It is now fixed since https://git.xfce.org/xfce/exo/commit/?id=de2d50f242299b8d6ea9945b91eff23585e6f091 !
Thank you for the report.
Comment 8 Tamaranch 2019-04-21 22:57:03 CEST
Great, thanks!

Bug #14252

Reported by:
Edmund
Reported on: 2018-02-28
Last modified on: 2019-04-21

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Assignee:
Xfce Bug Triage
CC List:
5 users

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