Re: Balsa Galeon

[jeffrey bruton <jb tux sbcglobal net>]

On 04.10.2003 17:26 Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> On 04/10/2003, Jeffrey Bruton wrote:
>> New to balsa and linux, but really am enjoying both so far. I have a 
>> simple question for a balsa user that uses galeon also (a galeon 
>> question really, sorry if this post is inappropriate.)
>> 
>> I would like mailto:'s to open in balsa. I found the section in the 
>> prefs for Galeon to define what mail client. I entered the path to 
>> balsa, and if I click on a mailto: it brings balsa to the front, but 
>> the address does not fill in.
>> 
>> I'm using balsa 1.4.2, galeon 1.2.6, and red hat 8.
> 
> On RH8 (which I use) you should try out Balsa-2:
> http://balsa.gnome.org/download.html
> 
> I also use Galeon (1.2.9), and it fires up Balsa correctly. I checked 
> the prefs, and the mail handler is just set to `Gnome'. However, I 
> can't for the life of me remember how I set the Gnome mail handler to 
> Balsa!
> 
> The issue is that if you specify the command line explicitly, Galeon 
> passes the address, subject, etc. in separate "%x" options, whereas 
> if you use the Gnome handler, Balsa is just given the URL (which it 
> can parse for itself).  My apologies for not being more complete!
> 
> Peter

balsa -m '%u' worked! I am using wmaker, so the gnome config is not 
relevent to me (right?), I should have noted that cause there's 
documentation about it in the galeon documentation.

Thank you, one more thing if I may, how might I get galeon to not fire 
up balsa a second time, rather use balsa if it is already open?

jb.tux