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Mime-type launcher #94
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Support is currently Windows only Partial support for #94
Per #94 Allows qz to be launched on apple via URL "qz:launch"
Apple support added via b57c573. |
I compiled and installed the latest version on Ubuntu 14.04 I added the line: <a href="qz:launch">Launch QZ Tray</a> to When clicking the link in Chrome, the following dialogue appears: When clicking "Launch Application," another instance of Chrome is launched. QZ Tray is not launched. Doing this in Firefox results in the following: |
Thanks Kyle. Can you try the following command please? xdg-mime default qz-tray.desktop x-scheme-handler/qz This will only affect the current logged in user but was the first approach I had tried. |
Actually Kyle... instead can you try to run this command interactively, perhaps there's a bug with the way I'm calling it in our install script... sudo update-desktop-database |
I first ran:
I then ran
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Chrome works fine for me on both 14.04 and 12.04 so as long as I use that In regards to it not launching for you in Chrome, try launching Google Chrome from command line via |
Testing results (I will update this post for other distros):
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Fixes packaging on Ubuntu 14.04 via #94 Closes upstream bug report megastep/makeself#58
Ubuntu 14.04 fixed via ba51664. |
Support is currently Windows only Partial support for qzind#94
Per qzind#94 Allows qz to be launched on apple via URL "qz:launch"
Allows qz:launch URLs to automatically launch the QZ Tray software. Closes qzind#94
Fixes packaging on Ubuntu 14.04 via qzind#94 Closes upstream bug report megastep/makeself#58
This seems to be broken for Firefox on OSX. Reopening. |
Some more details about Firefox 43 + OS X 10.7: Edit: Upstream bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=718422 Although Chrome and Safari work, Firefox seems to be pickier.
I've reached out to Mike Kaply for assistance. Perhaps he knows a trick to get this working. Note, this problem doesn't occur with Edit: Update, this seems to remedy the problem... I've no idea how to automate this though.
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I think I figured out a fix. Ready to test via dd5956e. |
Works so as long as preference Mike's offered to write a protocol handler... I think this is quite overkill, but I don't think we have an option at this point if we want our "Launch QZ Tray" button to work. |
A placeholder to add a mimetype/URI launcher for the web browsers which allows QZ Tray to be launched by URL, i.e.
I think this is doable at install time via a URL like
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