At Thu, 12 May 2011 09:43:01 +0200,
Mattias Jämting wrote:
> 
> I managed by hacking the /usr/bin/xdg-open script.
> 
> See:
> 
> http://www.mail-archive.com/emacs-orgmode@gnu.org/msg33861.html

Hi Mattias,

Thanks for the reply! By removing the org-protocol entries from gconf
I got it to work, briefly, but it stopped again. It is too bad that
launching external apps is handled so differently everywhere.

best, Erik