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devilDogbert

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Registered: 2012-05-05

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How to change the default browser in Xfce

Hi all,

I just installed Arch and am still using Openbox, but I was looking for info on how to change my default applications. After reading through several posts and documentation pages, I came across two handy files in my /usr/share/applications folder called, simply enough, Preferred Applications. For other newbies out there trying to change their default browser and having trouble succeeding with

$ nano /usr/bin/xdg-open

this seems to be a pretty quick fix. It feels pretty obvious, so I'm not sure if it's a warranted post, but I know it was a neat feature to discover and thought others might benefit.

Last edited by devilDogbert (2012-05-06 03:00:22)

boswbr25

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Registered: 2012-02-29

Posts: 63

Re: How to change the default browser in Xfce

You may want to mark your post as "[SOLVED]" so people that are looking for this info know that it is not just a question that has not been answered. And so people that are looking to help don't open and read through to find out it is not needed.

Or edit the title of the post to say "A way to change..." or something so it looks less like a question.

jasonwryan

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From: .nz

Registered: 2009-05-09

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Re: How to change the default browser in Xfce

Better still: add this information to the wiki (if it is not already there...)

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Gcool

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Registered: 2011-08-16

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Re: How to change the default browser in Xfce

You should probably be able to define it on a per user basis as well through ~/.local/share/applications

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foutrelis

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From: Athens, Greece

Registered: 2008-07-28

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Re: How to change the default browser in Xfce

The "Settings -> Preferred Applications" GUI (aka exo-preferred-applications) doesn't work for you?