Bug#253519: gnome-terminal: OpenLink feature does not work anymore
Filippo Rusconi
Filippo Rusconi <listes.rusconi@laposte.net>, 253519@bugs.debian.org
Wed, 09 Jun 2004 23:39:17 +0200
Package: gnome-terminal
Version: 2.4.2-7
Severity: normal
When a string like <http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16465> appears
in gnome-terminal it is automatically made active exactly as if it
were a web link in a browser. Right-clicking on that string (when
mouse goes over it, that link gets underlined) would open a context
menu with the item "OpenLink". Selecting that menu item would fire up
the web browser with that string as a parameter and thus display that
linked page automagically.
This feature no longer works, with this error message in a dialog box:
Could not open the address
"http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16465": There was an error
launching the default action command associated with this
location.Could not open the address
"http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=16465": There was an error
launching the default action command associated with this location.
However, when I do copy that same string with the "Copy Link Address"
item of the contextual menu (see above) and later paste that copied
link into mozilla-firefox, then the right linked page shows up.
So the problem appears to be in the way a correct link is processed
internally by gnome-terminal.
This mis-behaviour is a real nuisance for those mutt users who use
gnome-terminal as their mail-reading terminal.
Where should the browser be configured in gnome-terminal, so that it
might be verified this is not the problem ?
Thanks for your attention,
Filippo Rusconi
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.4.24-pre1-mg1-fr4
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8
Versions of packages gnome-terminal depends on:
ii gnome-control-center 1:2.4.0-9 The GNOME Control Center for GNOME
ii libart-2.0-2 2.3.16-5 Library of functions for 2D graphi
ii libatk1.0-0 1.6.1-2 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libaudiofile0 0.2.6-3 Open-source version of SGI's audio
ii libbonobo2-0 2.6.0-2 Bonobo CORBA interfaces library
ii libbonoboui2-0 2.6.1-1 The Bonobo UI library
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libesd0 0.2.29-1 Enlightened Sound Daemon - Shared
ii libfontconfig1 2.2.2-2 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.1.7-2 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgconf2-4 2.6.1-2 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt1 1.1.12-4 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglade2-0 1:2.4.0-1 Library to load .glade files at ru
ii libglib2.0-0 2.4.2-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgnome2-0 2.6.1-3 The GNOME 2 library - runtime file
ii libgnomecanvas2-0 2.6.1.1-2 A powerful object-oriented display
ii libgnomeui-0 2.6.1.1-2 The GNOME 2 libraries (User Interf
ii libgnomevfs2-0 2.6.1.1-3 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnomevfs2-common 2.6.1.1-3 The GNOME virtual file-system libr
ii libgnutls7 0.8.12-5 GNU TLS library - runtime library
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.4.2-1 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libice6 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 Inter-Client Exchange library
ii libjpeg62 6b-9 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libncurses5 5.4-3 Shared libraries for terminal hand
ii liborbit2 1:2.10.2-1.1 libraries for ORBit2 - a CORBA ORB
ii libpango1.0-0 1.4.0-4 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpopt0 1.7-4 lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii libsm6 4.3.0-7 X Window System Session Management
ii libstartup-notification0 0.6-2 library for program launch feedbac
ii libtasn1-0 0.1.2-1 Manage ASN.1 structures (runtime)
ii libvte4 1:0.11.10-8 Terminal emulator widget for GTK+
ii libx11-6 4.3.0-7 X Window System protocol client li
ii libxft2 2.1.2-6 FreeType-based font drawing librar
ii libxml2 2.6.10-3 GNOME XML library
ii libxrender1 0.8.3-7 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii scrollkeeper 0.3.14-8 A free electronic cataloging syste
ii xlibs 4.3.0.dfsg.1-1 X Window System client libraries m
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1.1-3 compression library - runtime
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