Re: [gentoo-user] quick kmail question

[Michal 'vorner' Vaner]

Hello,

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:47:40AM +0100, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> On Monday 05 March 2007 21:43:03 Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> > When I click on a URL in an email it opens a new Konqueror window.  However
> > I have it set in my Konqueror configuration to "Open as tab in existing
> > Konqueror when URL is called externally"  I've looked through the KMail
> > configuration settings but I can't find anywhere to change this.  Is there
> > a way?
>
> This has been annoying me too. I'm quite interested if anybody knows a better
> way to fix it but I've worked around it by setting /usr/local/bin/konqueror
> as my Web Browser in kcontrol -> KDE Components -> Component Chooser. If you
> do the same do remember to make /usr/local/bin/konqueror executable.
>
> $ cat /usr/local/bin/konqueror
> #!/bin/bash
>
> SESS="$(/usr/kde/3.5/bin/dcop | sed '/^konqueror/q;d')"
>
> if [[ -z "${SESS}" ]]; then
>         /usr/kde/3.5/bin/konqueror "$*"
> else
>         /usr/kde/3.5/bin/dcop "${SESS}" konqueror-mainwindow\#1 newTab "$*"
> fi

I do not use KMail, but you probably could replace this script with
kfmclient. I use that one from many applications (usually non-KDE ones).

With regards

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Michal "vorner" Vaner