[Fixed] GAIM without Epiphany

rth · Apprentice Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 157

I have emerged Gnome-light and GAIM and when it notifies me that I have an e-mail, it will open gedit (or when epiphany is installed, it will open that browser). How do I get GAIM to open a different browser? Such as a new tab in my existing Firefox window?

ivanhoek · n00b Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 11

Under my version of GAIM, there is a setting on the PREFERENCES menu to set the default browser..

rth · Apprentice Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 157

There is no preferences menu? There's Tools | Preferences, but I don't see a default browser setting. Or maybe I'm blind...

jods · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 12:45 am Post subject:

In my version of gaim 1.1.4 browser settings come under tools>preferences.
May be you need to check your version or eyesight

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rth · Apprentice Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 157

v1.2.1 for me. Eyes are bad, but I don't think they are that bad.

placeholder · Advocate Joined: 07 Feb 2004 Posts: 2500

If you compiled Gaim with the "gnome" USE flag, then you will not see that option because it uses the default browser set in GNOME.

rth · Apprentice Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 157

Well, I have two browsers installed. Mozilla and Firefox. It opens gedit instead (it's certainly not the default browser). I thought I had this problem before becuase I *had* Epiphany installed and then switched to Gnome-light after using Gnome for a while... And GAIM never updated itself. But this time, it's a clean 2005.0 install and it does the same thing (gedit). Going through the Gnome menu to Preferred Applications, the Web Browser option says Firefox. So, that's what is set, but it doesn't work.

I'm not aware of any "gnome" use flag for GAIM. Gnome and gtk2 (were there from before the X install) are in my use flags though, so it was compiled with that flag.

jods · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 1:24 am Post subject:

rth · Apprentice Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 157

Is it one of the options on the left side of Preferences?

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rth · Apprentice Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 157

It's not there for me. There is nothing between Network and Logging.

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.hesoez · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 7:46 am Post subject:

i don't have it either but i'm using epiphany.
you can set the default gnome browser with

neonknight · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 11:30 am Post subject:

Set another defaultbrowser in gnome preferences, as gaim uses gnome's default browser. You may need to emerge gnome-base/control-center.

rth · Apprentice Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 157

control-center was emerged previously. I switched the preferences from custom (the default it gave me) to Firefox. Same thing, it pops open gedit. So, I changed it to Mozilla instead. Same thing happens. I then chose '/usr/bin/firefox %s' as a custom setting in the Preferred Applications applet and I still get the same thing where it opens gedit.

jods · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 7:46 pm Post subject:

Out of curosity do you have something like this

rth · Apprentice Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 157

jods · Posted: Sat Apr 09, 2005 8:55 pm Post subject:

I have 3 choices in my browser options apart from the custom one. this might be indicated by the '3' in

rth · Apprentice Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 157

I tried as you suggested and it still opens gedit. I did a Google search for "gaim.xml browsers" and got no results.

rth · Apprentice Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 157

*bump* Anyone else with thoughts on this?

jods · Posted: Wed Apr 13, 2005 1:50 am Post subject:

file a bug report?

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rth · Apprentice Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 157

Bug filed.

rizzo · Posted: Mon Apr 18, 2005 1:44 pm Post subject:

Note that the email notifications actually have to do some work-around for auto-login. To do this, gaim writes a local file and opens that. Realise then that gnome has different "preferred browser" settings for http/https:// vs file://. Change the file:// url handler to firefox and it should behave as you expect.

edit: s/gaim/gnome/ for browser settings

rth · Apprentice Joined: 23 Sep 2002 Posts: 157

I'm not sure where s/gaim/gnome is in order to edit it. I have tried changing the "Preferred Applications" options to other browsers as well as using Firefox for text files. None of that helped. Is there somewhere else to edit it?

rizzo · Posted: Thu Apr 21, 2005 3:37 pm Post subject: