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Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives

From Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com>
Newsgroups linux.debian.user
Subject Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete, update-alternatives
Date 2020-04-05 22:30 +0200
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On Sun, Apr 05, 2020 at 11:03:07PM +0500, Alexander V. Makartsev wrote:

> If I'm getting it right, you are using Xfce, so first place you should
> look at is "exo-preferred-applications" [1] applet.

And that was it. Thank you. Now if only rclone actually did what I needed
....

This is getting well beyond Debian, but why would GNU/Linux in general have
so many overlapping ways to register default applications?

Should I report as a bug (in exo-preferred-applications) that removing a
package (firefox-esr) didn't remove it as the default?
-- 
Carl Fink                                                  carl@finknetwork.com 
https://reasonablyliterate.com                           https://nitpicking.com 
If you want to make a point, somebody will take the point and stab you with it. 
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x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2020-04-04 18:50 +0200
  Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-05 08:20 +0200
    Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2020-04-05 13:40 +0200
      Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-05 14:40 +0200
        Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carlf@panix.com> - 2020-04-05 16:00 +0200
          Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2020-04-05 18:00 +0200
            Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2020-04-05 22:30 +0200
          Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives "Alexander V. Makartsev" <avbetev@gmail.com> - 2020-04-05 20:10 +0200
            Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Carl Fink <carl@finknetwork.com> - 2020-04-05 22:30 +0200
              Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-06 10:00 +0200
                Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2020-04-06 11:50 +0200
                Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2020-04-06 12:20 +0200
                Re: x-www-browser doesn't change even after package delete,  update-alternatives Nicolas George <george@nsup.org> - 2020-04-06 12:40 +0200

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