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#1 2014-12-27 19:14:03

spacetekk
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Registered: 2014-12-27
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[SOLVED] Xfce terminal open links with wrong browser.

After installing Opera as second browser, xfce terminal began to open links with it, instead of my default browser - Firefox.
I right click on an URL, choose 'Open Link' and it opens in Opera.

Firefox is set as default browser in Settings -> Preferred Applications -> Web Browser

xdg-open http://archlinux.org

- opens Firefox

exo-open http://archlinux.org

- opens Firefox

After quick search through xfce terminal sources i found it uses some function - gtk_show_uri.
I googled it, found that topic: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=140028 and tried the solution:

cat ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
[Added Associations]
x-scheme-handler/mailto=exo-mail-reader.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox-browser.desktop

strangely it doesn't help.

After all righ click url in terminal and 'Open Link' still uses Opera.

Any ideas? What else can i do to find out a reason?

Last edited by spacetekk (2015-01-04 11:41:53)

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#2 2014-12-27 19:43:12

karol
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Registered: 2009-05-06
Posts: 25,440

Re: [SOLVED] Xfce terminal open links with wrong browser.

Have you tried exporting BROWSER envar?

$ echo $BROWSER
/usr/bin/firefox

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#3 2014-12-27 20:23:10

sisco311
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From: Romania
Registered: 2008-05-23
Posts: 112

Re: [SOLVED] Xfce terminal open links with wrong browser.

Had the same problem. Solved it by editing ~/.config/mimeapps.list

See: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/de … plications

don't drink unwashed fruit juice.
i never make predictions, especially about the future.

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#4 2014-12-27 23:04:49

spacetekk
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Registered: 2014-12-27
Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Xfce terminal open links with wrong browser.

Tried BROWSER envar - doesnt help, and as i understand it must work only for cli apps.

Editing of  ~/.config/mimeapps.list doesnt help eather:

cat ~/.config/mimeapps.list

[Default Applications]
text/vcard=firefox.desktop
text/html=firefox.desktop

[Added Associations]
text/vcard=firefox.desktop;
text/html=firefox.desktop

but maybe it's not correct.

After that i tried to strace xfce4-terminal:

...
poll([{fd=4, events=POLLIN}], 1, 4294967295) = 1 ([{fd=4, revents=POLLIN}])
recvmsg(4, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"\34\0.\331!\t`\2N\1\0\0\330\336\7\0\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0"..., 4096}], msg_controllen=0, msg_flags=0}, 0) = 352
recvmsg(4, 0x7fff5ad349d0, 0)           = -1 EAGAIN (Resource temporarily unavailable)
stat("/home/user/.local/share//mime/mime.cache", 0x7fff5ad34470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/user/.local/share//mime/globs", 0x7fff5ad34470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/home/user/.local/share//mime/magic", 0x7fff5ad34470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/local/share/mime/mime.cache", 0x7fff5ad34470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/local/share/mime/globs", 0x7fff5ad34470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/local/share/mime/magic", 0x7fff5ad34470) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
stat("/usr/share/mime/mime.cache", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=115108, ...}) = 0
open("/usr/share/applications/opera.desktop", O_RDONLY) = 13
fstat(13, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=550, ...}) = 0
read(13, "[Desktop Entry]\nVersion=1.0\nName"..., 4096) = 550 
read(13, "", 4096)                      = 0
close(13)                               = 0
access("/usr/local/sbin/opera", X_OK)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/local/bin/opera", X_OK)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/bin/opera", X_OK)          = 0
getuid()                                = 1000 
stat("/usr/bin/opera", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=416, ...}) = 0
access("/usr/local/sbin/opera", X_OK)   = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/local/bin/opera", X_OK)    = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
access("/usr/bin/opera", X_OK)          = 0
getuid()                                = 1000
stat("/usr/bin/opera", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=416, ...}) = 0
pipe2([13, 19], 0)                      = 0
pipe2([20, 21], 0)                      = 0
clone(child_stack=0, flags=CLONE_CHILD_CLEARTID|CLONE_CHILD_SETTID|SIGCHLD, child_tidptr=0x7fd725cf1bd0) = 1469
close(19)                               = 0
close(21)                               = 0
wait4(1469, [{WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 0}], 0, NULL) = 1469
...

and it's strange but as i can understand it uses some mime cache file located at /usr/local/share/mime/mime.cache
and before that some other non existing files, but i dont see there any familiar config files.

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#5 2014-12-28 00:43:43

spacetekk
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Registered: 2014-12-27
Posts: 3

Re: [SOLVED] Xfce terminal open links with wrong browser.

Solved the problem, but i  think it was not correct way. It worked when
i directly remove all x-scheme-handler\... from MimeType= in /usr/share/applications/opera.desktop
and rebuild cache with

update-desktop-database /usr/share/application

without it i am alway got this:

fgrep --recursive 'opera.desktop' /usr/share/applications                                                                                                                                                  
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache:application/xhtml_xml=opera.desktop;
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache:text/html=opera.desktop;firefox.desktop;
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache:text/xml=opera.desktop;firefox.desktop;
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache:x-scheme-handler/ftp=opera.desktop;
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache:x-scheme-handler/http=opera.desktop;firefox.desktop;
/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache:x-scheme-handler/https=opera.desktop;firefox.desktop;

opera was always first

looks like file /home/user/.config/mimeapps.list is ignored by xfc4-terminal or something i dont understand.

cat .config/mimeapps.list                                                                                                                                                                                               ~/ 

[Default Applications]
text/vcard=firefox.desktop
text/html=firefox.desktop;opera.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/mailto=exo-mail-reader.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop;opera.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop;opera.desktop;

[Added Associations]
text/vcard=firefox.desktop;
text/html=firefox.desktop;opera.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/mailto=exo-mail-reader.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop;opera.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop;opera.desktop;

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#6 2019-08-08 17:11:45

starfallen
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Registered: 2019-08-08
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Re: [SOLVED] Xfce terminal open links with wrong browser.

Worked for me when I added the following lines to `~/.config/mimeapps.list`:

[Default Applications]
x-scheme-handler/http=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=google-chrome.desktop

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#7 2022-02-08 19:14:13

clayms
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Registered: 2022-01-15
Posts: 12

Re: [SOLVED] Xfce terminal open links with wrong browser.

Had the same issue.  Several of the above solutions were already present in my `~/.config/mimeapps.list` file.  Some of the others made the brave browser prompt me to save the `.url` files I was attempting to open.

The following solved the problem for me.  Adapted from https://patrickgawron.com/t3/2018/10/08 … ntu-linux/

In the Thunar file browser:

  1. right click on the `.url` file,

  2. select "Open With",

  3. "Use a custom command",

  4. paste 

    bash -c "cat %f | grep URL | cut -d'=' -f2 | xargs brave &"

    (replacing "brave" with whichever browser you want),

  5. Check "Use as default for this kind of file"


Now `.url` files open correctly in the browser from any file manager.

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#8 2022-02-08 23:20:01

2ManyDogs
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Registered: 2012-01-15
Posts: 4,645

Re: [SOLVED] Xfce terminal open links with wrong browser.

Closing this old solved topic.

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