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It’s very easy after googling…

$ cd /usr/share/applications
$ sudo cp LotusNotes8.5.desktop LotusNotes8.5-url.desktop
$ sudo vi LotusNotes8.5-url.desktop

The example:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Lotus Notes 8.5 Url
Type=Application
Exec=/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/../notes-wrapper %u
Icon=/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/shared/eclipse/features/com.ibm.notes.links.feature_8.5.4.20120906-1255/icons/notes.ico
Terminal=false
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/notes
Categories=Application;Office;
NoDisplay=true

$ sudo update-desktop-database

Versions:

• Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS x86_64
• IBM Lotus Notes 8.5.4 x86

Reference: Comment 2 for bug 788673 – unable to open link with custom url-handlers

We have some python scripts for scheduled jobs. They are moved from a old machine and work very well automatically and manually. When we moved them to another machine, manually run them works fine. But they don’t work when we put them in corn.

After some search, there are two python versions in system. One is in /usr/bin and another one is in /usr/local/bin. Hmmm… That’s $PATH problem!

In bash shell, when we run the scripts manually, they are run by /usr/local/bin/python.

In cron, they are run by /usr/bin/python. Unfortunately, this version is too old to be compatible with our scripts.