Re: Thunderbird does not respect the default browser setting. [SOLVED]

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On 09/03/13 13:22, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 03/09/13 19:38, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
On 09/03/13 12:10, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 03/09/13 18:31, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
On 08/03/13 07:46, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 03/08/13 14:05, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
Hmm, there should be possible set default browser for individual
users, not only as system global.

Yes, there is....

xdg-settings is supposed to be the command to set that up.  However, I've found it to be buggy.  So, you can manually edit

$HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

Changing this mimeapps.list does nothing. There are two defaults.list on my system: In /usr/local/share/applications/ and in /usr/share/applications/

Changing defaults.list only works in /usr/share/applications/ and copying it to $HOME/.local/share/applications/ has no effect either.


I should mention I'm running KDE.  If you are using GNOME, you may want to try installing gconf-editor and checking the settings for desktop-->gnome-->url-handlers-->http  and  https.

I am actually running XFCE.


OK....  I just happen to have a system on which I've not run xfce.  When I clicked on the browser icon on the panel it informed me my default browser wasn't configured.  So, I chose /usr/bin/google-chrome.

The action of doing that modified several files....

~/.config/xfce4/helpers.rc  was created and contains the line

WebBrowser=custom-WebBrowser

Then ~/.local/share/xfce4/helpers/custom-WebBrowser.desktop  was created and it contains

[egreshko@f18x helpers]$ cat custom-WebBrowser.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
NoDisplay=true
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Type=X-XFCE-Helper
X-XFCE-Category=WebBrowser
X-XFCE-CommandsWithParameter=/usr/bin/google-chrome "%s"
Icon=google-chrome
Name=google-chrome
X-XFCE-Commands=/usr/bin/google-chrome


There is also a google-chrome.desktop in that same directory but it was created back in January and I think created when I installed chrome on that system.

OK, I see the same files but they do nothing with regard to launching google-chrome from links in thunderbird.


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Erik

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