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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