Comments on: Integrating a new URIs scheme handler to Gnome and Firefox

By: How to: Spotify and xdg-open « Team Unreliable Pollution

How to: Spotify and xdg-open « Team Unreliable Pollution — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:51:57 +0000

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By: Rob Parker » Blog Archive » Getting Spotify URIs recognised system-wide on GNOME distros

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:50:06 +0000

[...] on Gnome; sadly I could find no graphical way of doing this, but after a bit of searching, I found this page, which revealed it was a simple as adding a few keys to GConf. So I adapted to method for the [...]

By: Nathan

Nathan — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 02:52:37 +0000

Thanks for reference. I was pretty sure it was this simple, and that does the trick! Although my interest was in regard to getting the gnome panel menus to use Thunar instead of Nautilus and it was as simple as defining a ‘file’ url-handler!

By: Ralph Corderoy

Ralph Corderoy — Sat, 10 May 2008 15:24:54 +0000

Many thanks for the article. Just what I was trying to find out in order to by-pass Firefox 3’s awful bookmarks manager. BTW, http://impressive.net/people/gerald/2000/12/edit-bookmarklet.html is the correct replacement for the broken link in the article.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:15:16 +0000

Can you share how you got firefox and Azureus work, thx

By: Sean

Sean — Sat, 05 Aug 2006 08:27:11 +0000

Thanks for the HOWTO on adding url-handlers in GNOME! :) I was able to add an url-handler for azureus magnet links thanks to your help!