Gnome terminal cannot open http links

I have a gnome DE with openbox as my window manager and I use gnome-terminal. Normally when there is a http:// link I can right click and select "open link" to have it opened in a tab in firefox. However, recently I now get an error message:
Could not open the address "http://google.com" Operation not supported
I also tested this in another terminal emulator, sakura, and found that links don't open either, just with no error message. In other applications, for example thunderbird, links open in firefox correctly.
My gnome gconf seems to be set correctly.
cat .gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/%gconf.xml
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gconf>
<entry name="needs_terminal" mtime="1282144051" type="bool" value="false"/>
<entry name="enabled" mtime="1282144051" type="bool" value="true"/>
<entry name="command" mtime="1282144051" type="string">
<stringvalue>/usr/lib/firefox-3.6/firefox "%s"</stringvalue>
</entry>
</gconf>
Any ideas?
Last edited by mrutter (2010-08-18 15:16:22)

milasch wrote:And finally only if I add exec gnome-session to my ~/.xinitrc gnome will open through startx. gnome-session will lead to the same error.
Does this mean that gnome actually starts when you run startx, but that you tried to run the command gnome-session directly from the commandline and this doesn't start X? In that case, everything is exactly as it's supposed to be...
Gnome requires the X Window System in order to run. The command gnome-session is used to start gnome, but it won't start X - so if you try running gnome-session without a running X-server, it will fail. You are therefore supposed to configure ~/.xinitrc to run the windowmanger of your choice (in this case gnome-session), and use the command startx when you want to launch X and gnome.

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