Hi,
I need help with some features of Mandriva 2007 Spring. I am listing them below:-
1> I installed the latest version of Firefox from the urpmi sources. The email client I use is Thunderbird, which I have installed using urpmi. I want to ensure that when I click on a link in an email, the page should open in Firefox; and whenever I click on an email ID in my browser(Firefox, Opera or SeaMonkey) the compose mail box should open up in Thunderbird. But these are not happening. When I click on links in Thunderbird, Konqueror tries to open the page. When I click on an email ID in Firefox, a compose box in KMail pops up. I wonder if the urpmi versions of the software are somehow different.
2> The second problem is playing movie files on my computer. Whenever I try to play a VCD using Kaffeine(installed from urpmi sources), the program crashes.
Any help will be appreciated.

Hi, to fix up the Firefox and Thunderbird email settings you need to go into Mandriva Control Centre.

There you will find a place where you can set all of the default programs.

You can also do this by right clicking and selecting open with, like M$ windows.

The application binaries are kept in /usr/bin. Although there may be other places depending on what you have installed and how they were installed.

I'm not too sure about the Kaffiene problem as I don't play VCD's.

I hope this helps you some, Glenn.

Or KDE Control Centre/KDE Components/Component Chooser

Jim

Hi,
Thank you for your help. Your suggestions worked like a dream. Now any clues as to why Kaffeine should crash when I try to play VCDs? I just found out that Xine also crashes likewise. Could there be a link?

Kaffeine is just a kde front end for xine so it's not surprising they are both crashing. First thing to try is run all your updates as there were bug fixes for xine IIRC. If that doesn't help, you can try other video apps like totem, mplayer or vlc, all of which should be available through urpmi.

Thanks for the reply. In fact I have got all that is available in the urpmi sources, and yet Kaffeine crashes. But does not matter, for I also have vlc, KMPlayer, lindvd, and MPlayer

Do you have the win32-codecs installed? maybe that's you're problem you'll find them in the plf repositories

All the audio and video files on my computer can be played back; even the VCD files can be played by Kaffeine once I copy them to the hard drive. But
it cannot play the files from the VCD.

Check you're xine configuration. In kaffeine you find it here; setting->Xine player settings->media Maybe that setup is messed up. I use the 0.8.3 version and have no probs. with video cd's. What's you're version? If it's not 0.8.3 try to up/downgrade to that version....

Thank you.
I use the 0.8.3 version too. I am at work right now, and will check the settings tonight.