[SOLVED] Lite Welcome Screen, Help Manual Button

[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.freecinema2022.gq/hwdb.html
this does not work

suggest using
sensible browser link

[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.freecinema2022.gq/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.freecinema2022.gq/hardware.html" target="_blank">Linux Lite Hardware Database</a> to help others.</p>

[Valtam]

Where is this 'help gui'?

[Shady]

Where is this 'help gui'?

I think he means the help manual?

[rokytnji]

Browser link on mine shows

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

?

the help gui uses
for example
cmd://link?http://www.freecinema2022.gq/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

[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.freecinema2022.gq/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.freecinema2022.gq/manual/
cmd://link?http://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/index.php?action=search
cmd://link?http://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/index.php?action=register
cmd://link?http://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/
cmd://link?http://www.freecinema2022.gq/hwdb.html
Hopefully this will help clear up the problem.

[anon222]

Are you runing the latest version of Firefox?

Code:

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?

Code:

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

Code:

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

[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]

Can you run the updates and try again?

Did you run dist-upgrade

Code:

apt-get dist-upgrade

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

[avj]

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