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SLurl on Ubuntu 7.10 and Firefox

Ibrahim Qunhua
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Join date: 25 Feb 2007
Posts: 15
03-21-2008 05:21
First of all: Sorry for broken English.

When I try to open a Second Life SLURL, it won't work. My system tries to open the location in an old instance of the Windlight viewer, which is long gone on my system.

Where can I correct this?

I have looked in /etc/mime.types and mimeTypes.rdf in my Mozilla profile directory, but can't see anything related to Second Life and the «secondlife:-protocol». Where is this information stored?

Ib.
Michelle2 Zenovka
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Join date: 6 Jan 2008
Posts: 63
03-21-2008 09:01
Which desktop gnome, kde or other? they are all slightly different.

on gnome you can check the setting with

gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/secondlife/command

and set a new location with

gconftool --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/secondlife/command /path/to/secondlife %s

where /path/to/secondlife is the full path to the secondlife executable

if for some reason its been set directly in firefox look at the settings in firefox by going the page "about:config" and look for the secondlife entry
Ibrahim Qunhua
Registered User
Join date: 25 Feb 2007
Posts: 15
03-27-2008 15:21
Thank you very much for your answer. Yes, I am using gnome, and I found gconftool and were able to change the settings. It still doesn't work, though - but now I am closer to identify the errors.

Thanks again!