preferred browser

[Sam Black]

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On 12/10/13 09:45, Hartmut Haase wrote:
> Hi Marton,
> unfortunately it doesn't work for me although the changes are made. And
> the Firefox settings tell me, that it is the standard browser

I've had a prod at this, and it might be a bug in exo.

Using [1] as a guide, I checked what was going on;

 cat ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
  [Added Associations]
  x-scheme-handler/http=exo-web-browser.desktop
  x-scheme-handler/https=exo-web-browser.desktop
  ...
  [Default Applications]
  # HTTP not listed

 xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http
  firefox.desktop firefox.desktop

Thunderbird opens links in firefox, even if the preferred app is Midori.

Doing

 xdg-mime default exo-web-browser.desktop x-scheme-handler/http
 xdg-mime default exo-web-browser.desktop x-scheme-handler/https

 cat ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
  [Added Associations]
  x-scheme-handler/http=exo-web-browser.desktop
  x-scheme-handler/https=exo-web-browser.desktop
  ...
  [Default Applications]
  x-scheme-handler/http=exo-web-browser.desktop
  x-scheme-handler/https=exo-web-browser.desktop

Now thunderbird opens HTTP links in the preferred browser. I'm guessing
that the [Added Associations] also needs something in [Default
Applications] to work properly (as there seems to be duplication for
handling of RSS/Atom feeds).

Theres a tangentially related bug [2], it might be worthwhile commenting
on, or opening a new bug.

Hope this helps.

[1]
http://kevinlocke.name/bits/2012/07/18/thunderbird-default-browser-linux/
[2] https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10200

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Thanks,

Sam
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