Ubuntu
gnome-settings-daemon package

default browser keyboard-shortcut fails

Bug #198152 reported by Duncan Lithgow
6
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
gnome-settings-daemon (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Low
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

In Ubuntu 8.04 (updated march 3) the default browser keyboard-shortcut 0xb2 fails with the message

Couldn't execute command: /usr/lib/firefox/firefox ""
Verify that this is a valid command.

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James Westby (james-w) wrote :

Hi,

What version of the firefox package do you have installed?

  dpkg -l firefox

from the command line, or use synaptic to find the package
and get its version number.

Can you also tell me what you have in the gconf key

  /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command

gconf-editor will let you examine it.

I think this may be an error where NULL is converted
to "" and then not handled by g_shell_parse_argv.

Thanks,

James

Ralph Janke (txwikinger)
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon:
status: New → Incomplete
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon:
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Low
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Anthony M (amaher787) wrote :

I can confirm this bug using Firefox 3 beta 5.

In my gconf editor the key is:
/usr/lib/firefox/firefox "%s"

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Anthony M (amaher787) wrote :

I was able to fix this by changing the key specified by James to simply: firefox

James Westby (james-w)
Changed in gnome-settings-daemon:
status: Incomplete → New
status: New → Confirmed
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the issue was due to an incorrect user configuration and not a bug

Changed in gnome-settings-daemon:
status: Confirmed → Invalid
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