On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 05:26 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > On 07/20/17 20:33, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I run KDE but use a number of Gnome applications including Evolution. > > I'm currently using Opera as my default web browser, but can't get > > Evolution to recognise this. Running gnome-control-center offers me a > > list of possible browsers but Opera is not one of them and I don't see > > where I can add it as an option. > > > > I cannot make head or tail of gsettings (nothing under the evolution- > > related schemas says anything about browsers), so I try xdg-settings: > > > > $ xdg-settings get default-web-browser > > opera.desktop > > > > Looks fine, right? But clicking on a link in Evolution opens Firefox. > > So my question is, if xdg-settings is meant to be the solution to DE > > incompatibility issues, why does this not work? > > > > No, that is not enough.... > > What do you have for.... > > xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler http > xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler https They also show firefox.desktop, however if I try to change it: $ xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler http opera.desktop $ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler http firefox.desktop IOW I can't change it. (And yes, the opera.desktop file exists.) poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
