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For whatever reason, GTK applications open an empty chromium window when I click on links. 'xdg-open' opens a link fine as a new tab and links anywhere else have the same proper behavior, apparently just pure gtk applications (e.g. nautilus, corebird) open an empty window.
~/.config/mimeapps.list looks the following:
[Default Applications]
...
x-scheme-handler/http=chromium.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=chromium.desktop
text/html=chromium.desktop
...I also have "chromium" in the $BROWSER environment variable.
The output that happens when I click a link does not contain errors, just the default "Created new window in current browser session". Is there anything I'm missing?
Last edited by kumpelblase2 (2015-12-22 00:28:56)
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Does the same thing happen to other browsers (e.g. firefox)? I can't reproduce your problem here.
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Yes, with firefox it does work properly, which makes it even more weird. I checked if there was anything different in the two .desktop files between firefox and chromium, but there doesn't seem to be anything there, that would have an affect on this matter.
Last edited by kumpelblase2 (2015-12-22 00:23:37)
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Ok found the issue: there was a faulty chromium.desktop inside ~/.local/share/applications/ which would ignore the url passed into it and just run chromium. Since that directory is deprecated anyway, I removed it and everything is working as expected. Thanks for that, may it be small, hint @tom.ty !
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