xdg-email mozilla-thunderbird.desktop: command not found

Biscotty666 · 07-22-2022, 10:54 AM

xdg-open was not working with "mailto:" links in brave so I tried from the command line.

Code:

brian@backslackin:~$ xdg-email mailto:brian@brian.com
/usr/bin/xdg-email: line 620: mozilla-thunderbird.desktop: command not found

so I checked

Code:

brian@backslackin:~$ xdg-mime query default "x-scheme-handler/mailto"
mozilla-thunderbird.desktop

That seemed normal. I also copied mozilla-thunderbird.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications and added the line

Code:

MimeType=x-scheme-handler/mailto:

which seemed to fix it for some users but not for me.

Any thoughts?

marav · 07-22-2022, 12:24 PM

/usr/bin/xdg-email
line 620

Code:

    "$THUNDERBIRD" -compose "$NEWMAILTO"

and $THUNDERBIRD is referring to mozilla-thunderbird.desktop

maybe it should point to the binary : /usr/bin/thunderbird ?

Biscotty666 · 07-22-2022, 02:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marav

/usr/bin/xdg-email
line 620

Code:

    "$THUNDERBIRD" -compose "$NEWMAILTO"

and $THUNDERBIRD is referring to mozilla-thunderbird.desktop

maybe it should point to the binary : /usr/bin/thunderbird ?

The .desktop file has a line which launches the binary. I think that is correct.

marav · 07-22-2022, 03:35 PM

This is what I tried to say
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/x...s/-/issues/187

Code:

Under KDE, however, "open_kde()" does not do this call, and so it tries 
to execute the actual ".desktop" file itself (which is what makes this fail).

... instead of the EXEC= command

marav · 07-22-2022, 03:40 PM

Here is the patch:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg...bf6da7764955a9

EDIT: just tested, and it works

Code:

--- xdg-utils.SlackBuild        2022-07-22 22:47:09.299656037 +0200
+++ xdg-utils.SlackBuild.1      2022-07-22 22:46:54.981747670 +0200
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 VERSION=1.1.3
 PKG_VERSION=${VERSION/-/_}
 ARCH=noarch
-BUILD=${BUILD:-4}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-5}
 
 # If the variable PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME is set, then this script will report what
 # the name of the created package would be, and then exit. This information
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
 
 # Fix xdg-open usage in LXDE:
 zcat $CWD/xdg-open.no.relative.paths.diff.gz | patch -p1 --verbose || exit 1
+zcat $CWD/1a58bc28f6844898532daf9ee1bf6da7764955a9.diff.gz | patch -p1 --verbose || exit 1
 
 chown -R root:root .
 find . \

Biscotty666 · 07-23-2022, 06:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by marav

Here is the patch:

https://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg...bf6da7764955a9

EDIT: just tested, and it works

Code:

--- xdg-utils.SlackBuild        2022-07-22 22:47:09.299656037 +0200
+++ xdg-utils.SlackBuild.1      2022-07-22 22:46:54.981747670 +0200
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 VERSION=1.1.3
 PKG_VERSION=${VERSION/-/_}
 ARCH=noarch
-BUILD=${BUILD:-4}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-5}
 
 # If the variable PRINT_PACKAGE_NAME is set, then this script will report what
 # the name of the created package would be, and then exit. This information
@@ -56,6 +56,7 @@
 
 # Fix xdg-open usage in LXDE:
 zcat $CWD/xdg-open.no.relative.paths.diff.gz | patch -p1 --verbose || exit 1
+zcat $CWD/1a58bc28f6844898532daf9ee1bf6da7764955a9.diff.gz | patch -p1 --verbose || exit 1
 
 chown -R root:root .
 find . \

Thanks but I applies this patch, built and upgraded but it didn't do anything.

I did make an advance by changing xdg-email to go straight for thunderbird and not use the .desktop file. That made cli xdg-email work. The mail url extensions in brave are still not working though. No biggie.

I think I'll let this one lie for a while because at the end of the day it only saves a couple of clicks. Getting sound and wifi are more important. Next task: pipewire.