[Thunar-dev] exo-preferred-applications

[Benedikt Meurer]

Gregoire Gentil wrote:
> Benny,
> 
> I would like to pre-configure the browser launched with a URL link. I
> have understood that it's configurable with exo-preferred-applications
> which seems to create
> ~/.local/share/applications/xfce4/helpers/custom-WebBrowser.desktop.
> 
> I manually created this file on a clean image but it was not taken into
> account. What should I do/create to pre-configure the browser
> association for a URL link?

Add a whatever.desktop file for your browser in
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/xfce4/helpers/, and add a line

WebBrowser=whatever

to $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/xfce4/helpers.rc.

> Gregoire

Benedikt