[SOLVED] Lite Welcome Screen, Help Manual Button

[Scott]

Confirmed this is working in LL 2.4/64 Beta.

[Jerry]

Confirmed as Firefox issue, fixed in latest version.

[Jerry]

I will test this on the 2.4 Beta before release.

[anon222]

Exelent,
The problem was with FF it seems.
Good to know the latest update fixed this.
I don't read the LL manual so often that's why I missed the issue with web links.

[avj]

Updating seems to have fixed the problem for me.  I now have:

apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 36.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Candidate: 36.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 36.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 0
        500 http://mirror.nexcess.net/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages
        500 http://mirror.nexcess.net/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     28.0+build2-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://mirror.nexcess.net/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages


And all the previously mentioned links in lite welcome work.

[avj]

No, I either update with Install Updates or through synaptic. I will update again and report back.

[anon222]

Can you run the updates and try again?

Did you run dist-upgrade

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apt-get dist-upgradeThat might break the system. Never run dist-upgrade. LL is a young distro and is known to misbehave if you run dist-upgrade.

[avj]

This is what I have:

apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4
  Candidate: 36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4
  Version table:
 *** 36.0+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.4 0
        500 http://mirror.nexcess.net/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages
        500 http://mirror.nexcess.net/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     28.0+build2-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://mirror.nexcess.net/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages

grep "text/html" /etc/gnome/defaults.list
text/html=firefox.desktop;

grep "x-scheme-handler/http"  /etc/gnome/defaults.list
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop;

[anon222]

Are you runing the latest version of Firefox?

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apt-cache policy firefox
firefox:
  Installed: 36.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Candidate: 36.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1
  Version table:
 *** 36.0.1+build2-0ubuntu0.14.04.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main i386 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     28.0+build2-0ubuntu2 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main i386 Packages
Which web browser is set as the defaulft one?

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grep "text/html" /etc/gnome/defaults.list

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grep "x-scheme-handler/http"  /etc/gnome/defaults.list

[avj]

With a little luck, I seem to have found the problem that this topic is about.  The help gui it would seem is the help manual button on the lite welcome screen.  When I click the help manual button I get a new browser window with my home page.  The link is:  cmd://link?http://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/index.html
When I click the hardware database button i get the Get Support page. The link is:  file:///usr/share/litewelcome/support.html  None of the links on the Get Support page seem to work. 
cmd://link?http://www.linuxliteos.com/manual/
cmd://link?http://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/index.php?action=search
cmd://link?http://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/index.php?action=register
cmd://link?http://www.linuxliteos.com/forums/
cmd://link?http://www.linuxliteos.com/hwdb.html
Hopefully this will help clear up the problem.

[rokytnji]

Browser link on mine shows

file:///usr/share/doc/litemanual/index.html

?

the help gui uses
for example
cmd://link?http://www.linuxliteos.com/hwdb.html
this does not work

suggest using
sensible browser link

My launcher shows

Help Manual

xdg-open /usr/share/doc/litemanual/index.html

The Linux Lite Help & Support Manual

[Shady]

Where is this 'help gui'?

I think he means the help manual?

[Jerry]

Where is this 'help gui'?

[avj]

I think this might be what you are talking about both of the links in the help manual on the hardware page point to the same url. Hopefully this will be a little more clear if it is the problem you are talking about. 

<a href="https://www.linuxliteos.com/hardware.html" target="_blank">here</a> to see if your model is already listed. Don't forget
            you can also run Linux Lite live before you install it to see if
            your hardware is supported. This database feature is new so the
            list of computers at the moment is limited. If you already have
            Linux Lite installed, please consider adding your hardware to
            the
            <a href="https://www.linuxliteos.com/hardware.html" target="_blank">Linux Lite Hardware Database</a> to help others.</p>

[galen]

Edit by Admin: See reply #5 by Avj for a description of this problem.

the help gui uses
for example
cmd://link?http://www.linuxliteos.com/hwdb.html
this does not work

suggest using
sensible browser link