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Archdove

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Registered: 2011-09-23

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[SOLVED] configure default applications in awesome wm

Hi

I have a problem which could force me to reinstall my system, which seems silly since the problem is not that huge - but annoying.

For example:
1. opening a mailto link in chromium causes firefox to start which causes opera to start.e
   => thunderbird present, evolution removed but used before
2. opening some movie formats in transmission shows a popup that mplayer is not found. which is because my switch to mpv.
   => symlink mplayer -> mpv does not work an all cases
3. one i opened a file (dont know its type anymore) in thunar, which caused firefox to start, offering me the download of this file
   => wtf

So, with gnome installed or xfce or kde there would be a gui tool for configuring this. Without them, i'm hopeless since all the applications seem to use a different configuration from a different location.
a mime check... dont know the tool... showed me that the configuration was right.

What can i do?

Regards,
Archdove

Last edited by Archdove (2013-10-29 22:07:05)

Steef435

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Re: [SOLVED] configure default applications in awesome wm

I guess https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xdg-open might be a starting point.

Archdove

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Re: [SOLVED] configure default applications in awesome wm

Yes. xdg-mime is the one that shows the correct application to the mime type.
It was a good starting point. At least it seemed like a good starting point.

ninian

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Re: [SOLVED] configure default applications in awesome wm

Sounds like you need to edit the files ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list, /usr/local/share/applications/mimeapps.list and maybe /usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list. Using the file manager SpaceFM is one of the easiest ways of updating the first file, and it has plenty of documentation on this too. Or use an alternative to xdg-open like my own expro package.

Archdove

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Re: [SOLVED] configure default applications in awesome wm

.local file did the trick. Thanks.

Archdove

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Re: [SOLVED] configure default applications in awesome wm

and also:
https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=115647

"exo-preferred-applications"