enabling org-protocol with Firefox 3 and Ubuntu 9.04

enabling org-protocol with Firefox 3 and Ubuntu 9.04

[D M German]

Hi everybody,

if you have tried to enable org-protocol under Firefox you might run
into the issue that firefox does not start emacsclient, no matter what
the about:config variables say.

After spending some time I discovered that this is an issue of Firefox's
integration with Gnome. What you need is to tell Gnome that you have a
new URI protocol called org-protocol, and that emacsclient is
responsible for it. This is done with the following two commands (be
careful to indicate the correct full path of emacsclient):

gconftool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/org-protocol/command -t string '/usr/bin/emacsclient %s'
gconftool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/org-protocol/enabled -t boolean true

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Re: enabling org-protocol with Firefox 3 and Ubuntu 9.04

[Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs]

Hi!

D M German schrieb:
> if you have tried to enable org-protocol under Firefox you might run
> into the issue that firefox does not start emacsclient, no matter what
> the about:config variables say.
> 
> After spending some time I discovered that this is an issue of Firefox's
> integration with Gnome. What you need is to tell Gnome that you have a
> new URI protocol called org-protocol, and that emacsclient is
> responsible for it. This is done with the following two commands (be
> careful to indicate the correct full path of emacsclient):
> 
> gconftool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/org-protocol/command -t string '/usr/bin/emacsclient %s'
> gconftool -s /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/org-protocol/enabled -t boolean true
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Could you add this to the org-protocol documentation in worg?

I guess this is only relevant if you use firefox with gnome
integration, since it was never a problem for me, but it would be good
if this was documented in a more prominent place than the mailing
list.

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        Friedrich Delgado Friedrichs <friedel@nomaden.org>
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