Preferred Applications - webbrowser settings ignored

[Friedrich Strohmaier]

Hi Marshall, *,

Am 02.03.2015 um 01:24 schrieb 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.

I tried to change this via the dialog - the "%u" was "completed" with an "%s".
Editing custom-WebBrowser.desktop manually solved this, but did not change
anything regarding the behaviour of firefox.

> On 03/01/2015 04:07 PM, Friedrich Strohmaier wrote:

[..]

>> $ 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