How to change Default Email App?

[David Curry]

Glenn McKechnie wrote:

>Dave wrote:
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>>On Monday 24 January 2005 11:59 pm, Glenn McKechnie wrote:
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>>>Dave wrote:
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>>>>Anybody know how to set KMail to come up when I click a mailto: link,
>>>>instead of Evolution? Is that a per-app process, or is there somewhere I
>>>>can just change one setting?
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>>>Applications -> Preferences -> MorePreferences -> PreferedApplications
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>> Err ... where's the 'top' of that branch? I have no top-level menu labelled 
>>"Applications," and can't find a branch like that under another. It's not 
>>under "Preferences", "Control Center," "Utilities," "System Tools," "System 
>>Settings," or anywhere else I can think to look ...
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>What fedora version are you running? I'm running FC3 here and
>applications is the start of the main drop down menu, under fc2 it's up
>one level in Applications -> Preferences -> PreferedApplications, if it's
>fc1 I have no idea.
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>The actual name of that application is gnome-default-applications-properties
>so fire up a terminal and see if it exists on your install, it comes as part
>of the control-center rpm (control-center-2.8.0-12 for fc3)
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>>> SCO delenda est
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>> I'll drink to that ...
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>Looks like it will take a while though.
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I use FC2 and see no entry for "Applications" in the main popup menu 
(Red Hat icon) .  To set default applications, I use Preferences -> 
Preferred applications.