Plasma wont set Chromium as default browser

Zygote · 2015-06-09 05:55:03

Im running KDE + Plasma 5 on a number of Arch Linux systems and they all have the same issue. Chromium never sees itself as the default browser and I get the dialog asking me whether I want to make it default every time I start up Chromium.

Anyone have a fix for this?

Cheers!

Soukyuu · 2015-06-09 12:15:28

You could try going to settings->applications and change the default for web browser to chromium instead of "use application based on link contents". Also, maybe setting chromium as default for html will make it see itself as default.

Zygote · 2015-06-10 06:58:04

Soukyuu wrote:

You could try going to settings->applications and change the default for web browser to chromium instead of "use application based on link contents". Also, maybe setting chromium as default for html will make it see itself as default.

Tried that already. Doesnt seem to make much of a difference.

chardo137 · 2015-08-06 22:18:53

I get the same issue even though Chromium is essentially the only browser. My system also has two Avahi server browsers, and KNetAttach. Even though Chromium says that it is not the default browser, Chromium is what the system uses by default. I suspect that this may be an issue with Chromium. The constant warnings are annoying, but everything else seems to work as it should.

Soukyuu · 2015-08-09 00:07:17

I think I just told it to not remind me again, and thus am not seeing the warning anymore.

jeroenvlek · 2015-09-05 03:22:06

I have the same thing. I tried "Set as default" and "Don't ask again" both, repeatedly. Doesn't work. Smells like a permission issue.

/edit, btw:
Chromium 45.0.2454.85
Plasma 5.4

Last edited by jeroenvlek (2015-09-05 03:25:08)

Fixxer · 2015-09-05 04:28:52

Settings may be written in two files:

~/.config/mimeapps.list
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

Post output fo command:

xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http

Last edited by Fixxer (2015-09-05 04:29:17)

darkbasic · 2015-09-17 10:46:04

$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http
chromium.desktop

But it still complains it isn't the default browser. Plasma 5.4.1 here.

fxlgore · 2015-09-20 15:15:25

What the hell, this happen me as well :S, and i can see there is no solution yet, anyway i can live with this issue but it's strange.

darkbasic · 2015-09-21 08:40:33

There must be a solution, because I don't have this issue on Gentoo: only on Arch.

fxlgore · 2015-09-22 21:26:16

Well, fixed to me, i don't know how it happened lol, Just the last 2 days chromium doesn't ask me set as default, hope you too folks.

Holden Caulfield · 2015-10-06 15:57:16

I have the same problem after installing kdebase-konqueror. "xdg-settings set default-web-browser chromium.desktop" exits with error code 4 (action failed). "xdg-settings get default-web-browser" returns "kfmclient_html.desktop". Chromium button "Make Chromium the default browser" doesn't work (it's still "Chromium is not currently your default browser").

Last edited by Holden Caulfield (2015-10-06 20:05:57)

ksolsim · 2015-10-06 16:27:11

The same problem happens to me every now and then on plasma and gnome shell.

mukl · 2015-10-29 08:24:30

I deleted/renamed ~/.local/applications/mimeapps.list then the message for setting the default browser was gone.

Seems like Chromium cant override ~/.local/applications/mimeapps.list

EDIT: never mind, didn't work.

Last edited by mukl (2015-10-29 15:08:45)

repicajo · 2015-11-15 15:25:14

When I'm looking at the file...

~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

... after my fix, I have to admit it's not the most elegant way.

You can bypass the dialog by Settings -> Applications -> File Associations --> search for "text/html" -> Chromium all the way up -> Apply.

ZeroLinux · 2016-04-08 20:19:42

Yes, renaming this file works

mv ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list  ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list.backup

sadesyllas · 2016-10-08 10:04:02

What has worked for me is go to `Settings -> Applications -> File Associations` and there, filter with `html`. Then for the entries `xhtml+xml` and `html`, you can move `Google Chrome` to the first position of the preference order.

dpecos · 2017-05-18 14:22:13

sadesyllas wrote:

What has worked for me is go to `Settings -> Applications -> File Associations` and there, filter with `html`. Then for the entries `xhtml+xml` and `html`, you can move `Google Chrome` to the first position of the preference order.

This worked for me! Thx a lot!

Trilby · 2017-05-18 18:58:09

I'm glad it helped dpecos, but please leave old threads as they are:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closed.

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