Re: Using Chromium instead of Chrome?

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On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 10:14:29PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Mon, 06 May 2013 00:03:58 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 09:32:08PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> >> On Sun, 05 May 2013 08:54:54 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> >> 
> >> > What does the following say?
> >> > 
> >> >   $ xdg-mime query default text/html
> >> > 
> >> > It should give you the desktop file for Chrome.  Change it to the
> >> > desktop file for Chromium with something like the following.
> >> > 
> >> >   $ xdg-mime default <chromium_desktop_file> text/html
> >> 
> >> 	OK, I have a doubtless Very Dumb Question (VDQ) to the general
> >> case : if I want to change it to, say, Dillo (or Opera, or Midori,
> >> or ...), where do I look for this <generic-desktop-file> text/html, and
> >> how do I recognize it when I find it? I don't see any candidates where
> >> I can think of to look, but maybe I wouldn't.
> > 
> >   $ rpm -ql google-chrome-beta midori firefox | grep desktop
> >   /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome.desktop
> >   /usr/share/applications/fedora-midori.desktop
> >   /usr/share/applications/midori-private.desktop
> >   /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
> > 
> > Does this help?
> 
> 	Hmmm.... Ver-r-ry interessttingg : 
> 
> [btth@Hbsk3 ~]$ xdg-mime query default text/html
> firefox.desktop
> [btth@Hbsk3 ~]$ rpm -ql google-chrome-beta midori firefox | grep desktop
> /usr/share/applications/fedora-midori.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/midori-private.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
> 
> 	I have neither chrome nor chromium installed, so I also tried : 
> 
> [btth@Hbsk3 ~]$ rpm -ql google-chrome-beta arora dillo | grep desktop
> /usr/share/applications/fedora-arora.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/fedora-dillo.desktop
> 
> 	Then I substituted, but got a surprise : 
> 
> [btth@Hbsk3 ~]$ xdg-mime default </usr/share/applications/fedora-
> dillo.desktop> text/html

When I said <desktop_file>, it was a place holder for the name of the
desktop file.  The above command should have been:

  $ xdg-mime default fedora-dillo.desktop text/html

Hope this helps,

-- 
Suvayu

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