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Re: xdg-email config

From	Michael Wagner <wagner_m_bremen@web.de>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: xdg-email config
Date	2018-06-11 17:30 +0200
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On Jun 11, 2018 um 16:02:13, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Jun 2018, Curt wrote:
> 
> > You need to create a desktop file if one doesn't exist for your preferred
> > application.
> 
>    thank you for your answer. I tried to create alpine.desktop
>    from thunderbird.desktop, but it seems that it's content is not so good:
>    instead of openning alpine, I get a browser screen.
>    Where can I find a template for alpine.desktop, or at least a decription
>    of the content of a .desktop file?

Hello Pierre,

I found this on the german ubuntu page:

https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Alpine/

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Alpine
GenericName=mail client
Comment=read and write mail
Comment[de]=Emails lesen und schreiben
Exec=/usr/bin/alpine
Icon=/usr/share/icons/Humanity/apps/48/evolution.svg
Terminal=true
Type=Application

Hth Michael

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xdg-email config Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2018-06-11 13:20 +0200
  Re: xdg-email config Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-06-11 14:10 +0200
    Re: xdg-email config Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2018-06-11 16:10 +0200
      Re: xdg-email config Michael Wagner <wagner_m_bremen@web.de> - 2018-06-11 17:30 +0200
      Re: xdg-email config Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-06-11 18:10 +0200
        Re: xdg-email config Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2018-06-11 20:40 +0200
          Re: xdg-email config Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-06-11 22:10 +0200
            Re: xdg-email config Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2018-06-11 22:40 +0200
              Re: xdg-email config Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-06-12 11:00 +0200
                Re: xdg-email config Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2018-06-12 11:20 +0200
      Re: xdg-email config Darac Marjal <mailinglist@darac.org.uk> - 2018-06-11 18:30 +0200

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