Thanks Sebastian and David,
I now have firefox working, I had to use that html file though, as firefox
wouldn't bring up the application selection dialog with the test links on
worg.
Will now look into getting xdg-mime to work for chromium ...


On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 9:10 PM, David Maus <dmaus@ictsoc.de> wrote:

> Sebastian Rose wrote:
> >Julien Fantin <julien.fantin@gmail.com> writes:
> >> I've been struggling this morning trying to get org-protocol setup on my
> >> linux box (via http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/org-protocol.php)
> >>
> >> I can't get a web-browser to register org-protcol with emacsclient, as
> I'm
> >> not using a desktop environment (plain startx and openbox), I'm pretty
> sure
> >> this is an xdg config issue.
> >> However, despite reading through the specs I couldn't fathom the proper
> >> settings.
> >>
> >> In chromium, the external application comes up, and calls xdg-open
> >> org-protocol://subprotocol/... which ends up firing a new chromium frame
> >>
> >> In firefox, I've tried setting network.protocol-handler.app.org-protocol
> to
> >> an empty string or my emacsclient path, anyhow I get the following error
> >> message :
> >> "Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol
> >> (org-protocol) isn't associated with any program" without showing any
> >> external application selection  dialog.
>
>
> >Hi Julien,
>
>
> >see
> >
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol#All_Firefox_versions_.28requires_certain_Gnome_libraries_to_be_installed.29
>
> Or, of course "Firefox 3.5 specific (works without installed Gnome
> libraries)".  Worked fine for me (dwm), just one thing that is IIRC
> not mentioned on Worg: You have to click on protocol link to set path
> to emacsclient.  E.g.
>
> cat >> /tmp/test.html
> <a href="org-protocol:///>click</a>
> ^D
>
> and open /tmp/test.html in Firefox.
>
> HTH,
>  -- David
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