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Re: xdg-open drives me crazy

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On Thu, 26 Jul 2018 20:21:07 +0200,
Markus Grunwald<markus@the-grue.de> wrote:

>Hello,
>
>A few programs that I use, in turn use xdg-open. With web-pages, it
>gets it completely wrong, no matter what I do:
>
>% xdg-settings get default-web-browser
>chromium.desktop
>% echo $BROWSER
>chromium
>
>
> % grep -i bin /usr/share/xfce4/helpers/chromium.desktop
>/usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop
>/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/chromium.desktop:X-XFCE-Binaries=chromium;chromium-browser;
>/usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop:Exec=/usr/bin/chromium %U
>
>
>But what does that damn thing open? Firefox...
>
>What can I do ...?
>

It looks in your output like you are using Xfce - what is set in
"Preferred Applications" under Web Browser?

also test

exo-open --launch WebBrowser

which is a Xfce specific way. See

https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/exo/preferred-applications

for more info.

-- Andreas Rönnquist
mailinglists@gusnan.se
andreas@ronnquist.net

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xdg-open drives me crazy Markus Grunwald <markus@the-grue.de> - 2018-07-26 20:40 +0200
  Re: xdg-open drives me crazy deloptes <deloptes@gmail.com> - 2018-07-26 20:50 +0200
    Re: xdg-open drives me crazy Markus Grunwald <markus@the-grue.de> - 2018-07-26 21:00 +0200
  Re: xdg-open drives me crazy Andreas Ronnquist <mailinglists@gusnan.se> - 2018-07-26 21:10 +0200
    Re: xdg-open drives me crazy Markus Grunwald <markus@the-grue.de> - 2018-07-26 21:10 +0200
  Re: xdg-open drives me crazy John Crawley <john@bunsenlabs.org> - 2018-07-27 03:20 +0200
  Re: xdg-open drives me crazy Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2018-07-27 10:20 +0200
    Re: xdg-open drives me crazy Markus Grunwald <markus@the-grue.de> - 2018-07-27 23:30 +0200

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