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Re: xdg-open drives me crazy

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On 2018-07-26, 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:

What have you done? Completely wrong is a little like completely pregnant?

;-)

> % 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 ...?
>

What about

xdg-mime default chromium.desktop text/html
xdg-mime default chromium.desktop x-scheme-handler/http
xdg-mime default chromium.desktop x-scheme-handler/https
xdg-mime default chromium.desktop x-scheme-handler/about

or editing  ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list directly?

Just a quick stab in the darkness because it's quite hot here.

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-- Sergei Dovlatov, Pushkin Hills

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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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