#373 O365Interactive can't open the link in firefox on fedora/gnome/wayland.

[g2boojum]

DavMail on Fedora 31 w/ gnome/wayland.

When I run davmail w/ "davmail.mode=O365Interactive", and click on the link to open a url in my browser, I get the error "Firefox is already running, but is not responding." Opening links from my terminal works fine, so the problem seems specific to davmail.

I did see a similar error posted for keybase: https://github.com/keybase/client/issues/22782. I don't know if the problem is similar here or not. The proposed fix in that bug report did not work for me.

Thanks!

[Mickael Guessant]

DavMail first tries native JDK Desktop.browse method and then fail over to xdg-open.

Can you please check davmail.log for errors and whether xdg-open is called by DavMail ?

[g2boojum]

I don't see anything, but I'll attach my properties and log files. I created a new log file for testing, so it's reasonably sized.

[Mickael Guessant]

I checked on a fresh Fedora 31 installation, everything is working as expected with both jdk 8 and 11.
I even tried Zulu FX build to get full O365Interactive support:
https://www.azul.com/downloads/zulu-community/?version=java-13&architecture=x86-64-bit&package=jre-fx

[Mickael Guessant]

Unable to reproduce

[Ben]

Sorry, this is a super old issue, but I came here from Google with the same error, and I was able to figure out how to reproduce and also how to fix the issue, at least for my particular setup. It seems to be a Java issue, rather than a DavMail one.

I am on an updated Arch Linux system with Wayland, and Firefox is configured to use Wayland with the environment variable MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1 . Per the Arch Wiki, some programs have issues where they attempt to open a Firefox window using X, but Firefox is already running with Wayland. I was able to fix this issue by setting the environment variable MOZ_DBUS_REMOTE=1. This seems to be an issue that happens as a result of Java's Desktop.Browse functionality, as a minimal program attempting to open Google using that method has the same behavior.

Hope this helps someone!