Upgrade StorageZotero Standalone lookup broken
With Zotero SA I don't get any reaction from the lookup buttons to search for a reference. In principle this should open a browser window or use an already opened browser window (probably firefox or konqueror) and list Google Scholar's entries for the item.
I also cannot obtain any response in SA when I click on any URL link in the item details panel or on a web-page item.
Is this normal behaviour for ZSA 3.0b2 in Fedora 15? How can I specify an external application to open web-based links? When I first used it, opening a .pdf item would ask for an external app to use, but after that it would remember the settings. But with html items it just sits there... Turning on the error log message doesn't provide much of a clue either.
Since no one else seems to be complaining about this should I conclude that it's a specific thing for ZSA 3.0b2 in fedora 15?
I also cannot obtain any response in SA when I click on any URL link in the item details panel or on a web-page item.
Is this normal behaviour for ZSA 3.0b2 in Fedora 15? How can I specify an external application to open web-based links? When I first used it, opening a .pdf item would ask for an external app to use, but after that it would remember the settings. But with html items it just sits there... Turning on the error log message doesn't provide much of a clue either.
Since no one else seems to be complaining about this should I conclude that it's a specific thing for ZSA 3.0b2 in fedora 15?
seeing something similar (?) in zotero firefox.
I just "upgraded" to Ubuntu 11.10 ("ocelot") and zotero plugin
for libreoffice no longer works for me. The zotero buttons appear
in the lo toolbar but nothing happens when I click on them
(specifically, no firefox dialog window opens).
I have reinstalled zotero and the lo integration extensions in
firefox, but it makes no difference.
I have checked that java is enabled in lo; indeed, I have tried
all four different java installations that lo located, but it
makes no difference.
If I try lo with no firefox already running it makes no
difference either.
If I start lo within a terminal, I get the following logged there
when I try a zotero button: This suggests to me that the integration component in lo is at
least running (so not a java issue as such? maybe?) but something
is failing in the communication with firefox.
Any ideas for how to investigate further would be welcome!
working again, but am not absolutely sure how ;-)
First I did a full restart (which I had not done up to then,
after re-installing the zotero firefox extensions). That seemed
to make "something" happen - I was at least getting some response
to the zotero buttons in lo, but detailed behaviour was still
erratic.
Secondly, I limited myself to just one instance of firefox
running on the machine. To explain: in my particular context, I
typically have multiple ubuntu sessions running, with different
users, so that I can quickly switch between different
contexts/environments. This does mean that I typically have
multiple firefox instances running on the one machine, albeit
under different logged in users, in different ubuntu/gnome
sessions, which therefore should not interact or interfere with
each other. Nonetheless, it seems that, in the specific case of
lo-zotero-firefox integration, the integration component may get
confused by this. Or at least, it was only when I exited all but
one instance of firefox that I got it working more or less
reliably again.
I don't know whether this is exclusively something new on ubuntu
11.10 or not. I was previously running 11.04 ("natty"); I was
also using a "lighter-weight" mechanism for concurrent user
sessions (different logins, but within one gnome session). I did
sometimes encounter some flakiness in the lo-zotero-firefox
integration, but not the consistent breakdown I saw today.
Anyway, your mileage may vary: but if you are ever running
multiple firefox instances and see erratic lo-zotero-firefox
behaviour, it may be worth switching down to just a single
concurrent firefox instance, just to be sure...
cd /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/
sudo ln -s libnotify.so.4.0.0 libnotify.so.1
Start Zotero and try a DOI or URL link. It should open in your browser.
I guess the location of libnotify can vary depending on architecture and distribution. I don't know if this is a solution or a workaround.
We suspected that libnotify was the problem but hadn't tried symlinking—nice find. We might be able to recompile XULRunner to fix this properly, but hopefully xdg-open will work on most systems.