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Cannot create email from within Firefox
Status:
RESOLVED: FIXED

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Description Manuel Grießmayr 2020-04-15 11:31:31 CEST
When clicking the button in Firefox to create an email with a link of the current web page I get an error. The email button can be configured within the settings of Firefox (not about:config just the normal user gui settings).

This is the error message:

"The set mail program coudn't be started. Child process /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/exo/exo-compose-mail couldn't be executed (file or directory not found)."

This worked previously but now on Xubuntu 20.04 64 bit beta it's not working anymore.

The program is located under /usr/share/xfce4/exo instead of /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/exo. So creating a symlink worked:

sudo mkdir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/exo
sudo ln -s /usr/share/xfce4/exo/exo-compose-mail /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/exo/exo-compose-mail
Comment 1 Theo Linkspfeifer editbugs 2020-04-15 12:44:30 CEST
Similar report: Bug 16433
Comment 2 Theo Linkspfeifer editbugs 2020-04-16 21:30:46 CEST
This bug is caused by the Debian packaging. A fixed version for Ubuntu was uploaded yesterday.

Does installing the new version (0.12.11-1ubuntu1) resolve the issue?
Comment 3 Manuel Grießmayr 2020-04-16 23:20:43 CEST
Indeed, it's working now :)

Bug #16696

Reported by:
Manuel Grießmayr
Reported on: 2020-04-15
Last modified on: 2020-04-16

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Xfce Bug Triage
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Version

Version:
0.12.11

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