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Re: Changing default XDB browser w/o GNOME etc.

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On 13/12/15 09:19, Eduard Bloch wrote:
> Observation: various programs use the XDG mechanism (freedesktop
> configuration method) to start a specific browser to visit a hyperlink.
> Easy to verify with the xdg-open tool.
>
> But how can I change this setting in a persistent way especially when I
> don't use Gnome or Kde or Xfce? I tried LxQt once and apparently the
> stupid thing has reset some configuration and now xdg-open starts
> Qupzilla which I don't like. Before, some other stupid program has reset
> it to Chromium which I don't like either.

xdg-open examines your environment to determine what desktop environment 
(if any) you are invoking it under, and follows a DE-specific strategy 
if you're using one of the DEs it knows about (KDE, LXDE, XFCE, Gnome, 
Darwin, MATE). This is an entirely reasonable design decision, but also 
one that reasonable people can disagree with.

If you are not using one of the desktop environments it knows about, 
then it uses its "generic" approach. For HTTP URLs, the generic approach 
is "check the BROWSER environment variable, then try the web browsers in 
a specified order if BROWSER isn't set". The first entry in that 
ordering is www-browser if DISPLAY is not set, and x-www-browser if 
DISPLAY *is* set.

xdg-open is written in POSIX shell, so you could easily copy it into a 
higher-priority location in your particular user account's PATH and 
modify it.

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Changing default XDB browser w/o GNOME etc. Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> - 2015-12-13 10:30 +0100
  Re: Changing default XDB browser w/o GNOME etc. "Thomas Schmitt" <scdbackup@gmx.net> - 2015-12-13 10:40 +0100
    Re: Changing default XDB browser w/o GNOME etc. Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> - 2015-12-14 11:30 +0100
  Re: Changing default XDB browser w/o GNOME etc. <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2015-12-13 11:20 +0100
  Re: Changing default XDB browser w/o GNOME etc. Martin Read <zen75502@zen.co.uk> - 2015-12-13 12:20 +0100
    Re: Changing default XDB browser w/o GNOME etc. Eduard Bloch <edi@gmx.de> - 2015-12-14 11:20 +0100
  Re: Changing default XDB browser w/o GNOME etc. Christian Seiler <christian@iwakd.de> - 2015-12-15 17:20 +0100

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