Gnome-2.4 Desktop setup questions

Joe Marcus Clarke marcus at marcuscom.com
Thu Sep 25 00:55:09 PDT 2003


On Thu, 2003-09-25 at 03:47, Vladimir B. Grebenschikov wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 
> 1. How to force evolution execute 
> mozilla instead of epiphany.

Applications->Desktop Preferences->Advanced->Preferred Applications->Web
Browser

> 
> I have already set up DesktopPreferences -> Advanced ->
> PrefferedApplications -> Browser, but it is does not helps.

Works for me.  I set a custom browser of galeon --noraise -n %s.  Try
restarting Evo.

> 
> 2. Also I have no openoffice items in gnome default menus and gnome
> mimetypes (not sure, may be it is question to freebsd-openoffice)

You have to add them.  I had to setup my associations so Word, Excel,
PPT docs are opened with openoffice.

> 
> 3. Have anybody plans to put gcm (Gnome Cliboard Manager) to FreeBSD
> ports tree ?

Not me.  I thought someone was looking at this.  You're free to do it if
you'd like.

> 
> 4. gnome-swallow, I have tried to start Licq with doc as swallowed
> application - no luck, it sometimes tries to put main window into
> swallow window, sometimes don't sense dock window ...
> 
> Anybody have such setup ?

Nope.  You may want to bring this up to the author.  He hasn't updated
it in some time.  Perhaps there's a problem with the new GNOME 2.4
stuff.

Joe

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