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art

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[SOLVED] make xdg-open to use FBReader as a default app for *.fb2

Hello, how to make xdg-open to use FBReader as a default app for *.fb2 files?

❯ uname -a
Linux ... 5.12.15-arch1-1 #1 SMP PREEMPT Wed, 07 Jul 2021 23:35:29 +0000 x86_64 GNU/Linux

❯ xdg-mime query filetype MYFBFILE.fb2
text/xml

❯ xdg-mime query default text/xml
chromium.desktop

I also has xfce4-mime-settings. But setting there FBReader for application/x-zip-compressed-fb2 mime type makes no effect for xdg-open.

Reading https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/XDG_MIME_Applications makes it not clear. Looks like I need to install this mime type using some xml file?

Last edited by art (2021-07-30 12:33:11)

Lone_Wolf

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Re: [SOLVED] make xdg-open to use FBReader as a default app for *.fb2

It does look like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FictionBook uses an xml file , so xdg-mime is correct.

I also has xfce4-mime-settings. But setting there FBReader for application/x-zip-compressed-fb2 mime type makes no effect for xdg-open

Output of xdg-mime query default application/x-zip-compressed-fb2 ?
If empty try adding the format directly to ~/.config/mimeapps.lst

for the non-compressed FB2 files try

xdg-mime default FBReader.desktop text/xml

Edit : test ≠ text , corrected

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2021-07-30 12:19:50)

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art

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Re: [SOLVED] make xdg-open to use FBReader as a default app for *.fb2

xdg-mime default FBReader.desktop test/xml

Thanks! It worked. Next time will check if mime type is correctly determined

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Re: [SOLVED] make xdg-open to use FBReader as a default app for *.fb2

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