`xdg-open` handles IRC URIs incorrectly
Bug #631830 reported by
Josh Brown
This bug affects 6 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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xdg-utils (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: xdg-utils
I'm running two IRC clients, XChat and Empathy.
When I run the command `xdg-open irc://chat.
Ubuntu 10.04
xdg-utils 1.0.2-6.1ubuntu3
Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Low |
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To add, when I try irc://irc. gnome.org/ #banshee in Chrome, it attempts to launch xdg-open irc://irc. gnome.org/ #banshee
Nothing opens however. When I run this command in the terminal I rxdg-open irc://irc. gnome.org/ #banshee
ecieve the following:
joseph@snowdrift:~$ xdg-open irc://irc. gnome.org/ #banshee gnome.org/ #banshee: error opening location: The specified location is not supported
gvfs-open: irc://irc.
I have tried adding the following commands, in case there's an issue of the system missing the config:
$ gconftool-2 --set --type=string /desktop/ gnome/url- handlers/ irc/command 'xchat "%s"' gnome/url- handlers/ irc/enabled true gnome/url- handlers/ irc/need- terminal false
$ gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /desktop/
$ gconftool-2 --set --type=bool /desktop/
No change. This appears to be a common issue with Natty 10.04 and there appears to be no fix. Can you please advise if this is a bug (upsteam or no) or just a simple lack of documentation issue?
Thanks!
joseph@snowdrift:~$ uname -a
Linux snowdrift 2.6.38-8-generic #42-Ubuntu SMP Mon Apr 11 03:31:50 UTC 2011 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux