Preferred Applications - webbrowser settings ignored

[Marshall Neill]

I checked my .local/share/applications/Firefox Web Browser (via thunar) 
then opening was as follows

Exec=/usr/bin/firefox %u

so you can see the parameter is not %s but %u

See if that helps.





On 03/01/2015 04:07 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:
> Hi Lars, *,
>
> Am 23.02.2015 um 13:06 schrieb Lars Behrens:
>> Am 23.02.2015 um 12:24 schrieb Friedrich Strohmaier:
>>> I set up firefox following "Specify a custom Web Browser" but no change.
>>> I selected chromium or even lynx, but no change
>>> Doing all this results in get opened *firefox* without showing the desired URL.
>>> I run  xfce4 4.10.1 on archlinux
>> Having not much arch experience myself, maybe this helps:
>> https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xfce#xdg-open_integration_.28Preferred_Applications.29
> Thanks, this helped narrowing down to deeper investigation:
>
> setting:
> Custom Web Browser: /home/me/lib/firefox/firefox "%s"
>
> $ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
> custom-WebBrowser.desktop
>
> $ find .config/ .local/ -iname custom-WebBrowser.desktop
> .local/share/xfce4/helpers/custom-WebBrowser.desktop
>
> $ ls -l .local/share/xfce4/helpers/custom-WebBrowser.desktop
> -rw-r--r-- 1 me users 249  1. Mär 22:53 .local/share/xfce4/helpers/custom-WebBrowser.desktop
>
> .. created while setup.
>
> $ cat .local/share/xfce4/helpers/custom-WebBrowser.desktop
> [Desktop Entry]
> NoDisplay=true
> Version=1.0
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Type=X-XFCE-Helper
> X-XFCE-Category=WebBrowser
> X-XFCE-CommandsWithParameter=/home/me/lib/firefox/firefox "%s"
> Icon=firefox
> Name=firefox
> X-XFCE-Commands=/home/me/lib/firefox/firefox
>
> Finally it appears that xfce is not able to pass the URL to firefox through the
> configuration created by it's own?
>
> As mentioned in the other thread's mail, thunderbird can do, so firefox is able
> to receive the command. No glue how to dig deeper with xfce.
>
> any help appreciated.
>
> Friedrich
>
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