Re: Firefox and Thunderbird annoyance in TWM

John Wynstra wrote:
I have FreeBSD 7.0 running on a PC at home which was formerly running
Windows XP until I couldn't stand it anymore. I had both of the latest
Thunderbird and Firefox installed on it as my mail application and web
browser. Unfortunately I am unemployed so I was in the habit of using
Dice via Thunderbird which when I double clicked the job advertisements
would bring up the appropriate Firefox window auto magically. This is
now broken. I don't know why but it is annoying. I thought it might be
the pointer follows mouse focus policy but I was wrong. That is the
default focus policy under my window manager (twm). BTW I had thought I
was running fvwm instead of twm but evidently I was wrong in selecting
the location of one of the initialization files. I use startx to start
X11. An odd thing is that if I double click within Firefox as for
instance when I am managing my bookmarks file it will raise the screen
selected. It is only when I double click from Thunderbird that this is
broken. Once in a while an odd thing like when moving the mouse over
one window will raise another in addition to changing focus. Another
annoyance.

It is unclear to me whether this is just a problem with raising the
right window or whether the problem is that Firefox does not pick up
links from Thunderbird. In the latter case you may need to set these
preferences in TB:

network.protocol-handler.app.http
network.protocol-handler.app.https

Both should have the value /usr/local/bin/firefox. Sorry if I
misinterpreted your problem.
--
Tore

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