I finally figured out how to get the Gnome desktop (actually, Nautilus, I guess) to use Flock as the default browser for opening html files. [Yeah, probably boringly trivial to those who know, but ... I had to figure it out, so maybe someone else does too.]
When I installed Flock, I did so as per “instructions” for Linux users: unpack the tarball into your home home directory. OK. Yeah, that works. Except, when telling Nautilus to use Flock to open HTML files (“Open with other application”/”Use custom command”), it produced a null response.
However,trying to run flock from the command line revealed that it was not locating a needed library file. Even though that file was in the Flock directory. So … poking around in the flock start script (“flock”), I found a reference to /usr/local/lib/flock-1.1.4. Ah-ha! So, experimentally, I reinstalled flock in that location, and tried running it from there, and it worked. So, there you have it ppl. Install Flock in that location (needs sudo) and you’ll be happy.
[And they could have said that in the install notes. Grr.]
