[openbox] Chromium Browser - xdg issue

Dana Jansens dana at orodu.net
Mon Sep 26 17:17:59 EDT 2011


On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 5:00 PM, Robert Orzanna <orschiro at googlemail.com>wrote:

> So, when I use the xdg-open hack I would need my own xdg-open to
> symlink to /usr/bin/xdg-open, right?
>

Or just put a file called xdg-open in a directory that appears in your PATH
environment variable before /usr/bin.


>
> To the use of mimeo:
>
> I already tried it but I couldn't figure out any ways to define a
> working mimetype handling with it.
>
> Can you give me an example?
>
> Robert.
>
> 2011/9/26 Myra Nelson <myra.nelson at hughes.net>:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 17:59, Robert Orzanna <orschiro at googlemail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> How must that local xdg-open script look like?
> >>
> >> But I'm still very unhappy with such a solution. I rather want to
> >> understand why I encounter this problem of defining chromium-browser
> >> as default browser with xdg.
> >>
> >> Robert.
> >>
> >> On Thu, Sep 22, 2011 at 10:39 PM, Robert Orzanna
> >> <orschiro at googlemail.com> wrote:
> >> > Hello,
> >> >
> >> > I struggle for days to define Chromium properly as my default browser
> >> > for xdg.
> >> >
> >> > The basic problem:
> >> >
> >> > xdg-open http://google.com opens a new chromium window.
> >> >
> >> > However, when I want to open links, say from zim
> >> > (http://localhost:8080) or thunar-dropbox (view on dropbox site)
> >> > nothing happens.
> >> >
> >> > I tried several things, created a defaults.list, exported the DE and
> >> > BROWSER variable and configured exo-open but none of the things work.
> >> >
> >> > I discussed this problem also here [1] where you can find more
> >> > information.
> >> >
> >> > Also I came across this mailing list post [2] where a similar problem
> >> > was posted. However, adding export BROWSER=exo-open or
> >> > chromium-browser did not change anything.
> >> >
> >> > I hope you guys can help me out. It is really frustrating.
> >>
> >> In the worst case you can make a script called xdg-open in your path,
> >> that runs its parameters in chromium.
> >>
> >> > Regards,
> >> >
> >> > Robert.
> >> >
> >> > [1] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=993940#p993940
> >> > [2] http://web.archiveorange.com/archive/v/nBRx34vvAo9stLyJY9lE
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> > I noticed you've discussed the topic on the arch linux forums (I didn't
> read
> > the forum thread) so I have some suggestions. If you're using Arch try
> > installing mimeo ( https://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=32911 )
> from
> > the AUR. It allows one to set their defualt mime types in desktop files
> > located in the  ~/.local/share/applications or ~/.local/share/mime
> folders
> > in your home directory. xdg-open uses desktop configuration files stored
> in
> > /usr/share/applications (at least on Arch) to determine which program to
> use
> > for a specific mime type. For zim there is an options in the preferences
> > dialog under applications to set up your file browser, web browser, email
> > client, and text editor. It comes up showing xdg default but you can set
> the
> > apllication you wish to use by clicking on the double arrow on the right
> > side of each option. As for thunar and dropbox, you should be able to set
> a
> > custom action by using the dialog under Edit; configure custom action
> > dialog.
> > As I said, I didn't read the forum thread, but the combination of mimeo
> and
> > configure custom actions in thunar have taken care of my needs on Arch.
> > Myra Nelson
> >
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