Default Applications

[Terence Simpson]

Mark Fraser wrote:

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> A couple of things leading on from this:
>
> 1) My default mail software at the moment is Kmail, if I wanted Firefox to 
> open mailto: links in Kmail would I just change mozilla-thunderbird above to 
> kmail?
>
> 2) I thought I'd have a look to see what else I could configure this way and 
> came across sudo update-alternatives --config x-window-manager, imagine my 
> surprise when I found it was defaulted to metacity. Is this what it should be 
> for Kubuntu, if not why is it set as that on mine?
>
>
>   
That's not the default for KDE, it should be set to kwin. That being
said the script that starts KDE when you login starts kwin directly
anyway (or it should).
Easy way to check, press Ctrl-Esc (or KMenu > KSysGuard > Processes tab)
and see if kwin or matacity is running.

Terence