[openbox] Chromium Browser - xdg issue

[Dana Jansens]

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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