[openbox] XDG

[vlad]

On Sun, Jul 11, 2010 at 01:47:25PM +0100, Paul wrote:
> I don't use any 'desktop environment' - just Openbox with some KDE applications once in a while. When I do 'xdg-open <URL>', it pops up Firefix with the URL loaded in it. However, I cannot find a way to make it use Opera instead.
> 
> When I do 'xdg-settings --list', I get:
> 
> Known properties:
>   default-web-browser           Default web browser
> 
> However, when I do 'xdg-settings get default-web-browser', I get:
> 
> xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment
> 
> (I get the same when I try 'xdg-settings set default-web-browser opera.desktop'.)
> 
> Since xdg-open is meant to be used within a DE, I thought it might pick up any KDE settings that I might have, but I've already made sure that my default browser according to KDE's systemsettings is Opera.
For most applications it is sufficient to set "export BROWSER=opera" in your
.bash_profile or .bashrc.
xdg-settings didn't work for me neither.
> 
> So obviously xdg-open does work outside a DE, it's just I can't find how to change its settings :-/  Any help?

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