Hi Tom,
On Sun, Sep 02, 2012 at 11:30:26AM -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
>
> xdg-open open currently appears to go through the file:
>
> /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
>
> And when several apps are listed for the same mime
> type, it uses the first one in the list.
>
Strangely, chrome was not listed anywhere in this file!
> I believe (but haven't conducted the experiment
> yet) that you can override the default in your
> own file:
>
> ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
>
> but I'm not sure the exact format of that file yet.
> It appears to have (at least) two sections:
>
> [Added Associations]
>
> and
>
> [Default Applications]
>
> Maybe if you just copy the line from mimeinfo.cache
> into both sections and re-arrange it so firefox is
> first, that will do it?
>
I found this file after I had sent my post. Adding the following line
text/html=firefox.desktop
in the [Added Associations] section does solve my problem. Thanks a
lot.
Cheers,
PS: I would really appreciate it if you posted the writeup after you
were done. Understanding xdg-open behaviour and options has been a
long time curiosity for me.
--
Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.
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