On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 09:10:21AM +0100, Thomas Jost wrote: > Le 29/11/2010 03:26, Sergey Manucharian a écrit : > > I wonder if somebody could already figure out how to handle file and > > protocol associations for Chromium. For those who use a DE like > > KDE/Gnome most probably everything works out of box. There is an > > article in wiki how to use chromium with no DE [1]. It suggest to use > > mimeo and xdg-utils-mimeo, but it simply does not work (at least in my > > case). > > It works for me with mimeo and xdg-utils-mimeo (I'm using Chromium with > Awesome WM -- no DE). You have to use ~/.config/mimeo.conf to store your > associations, and to use at least mimeo 2010.11.02 (first version that > integrates my patch to use this file by default). > > Here is my mimeo.conf: > > -----------------8<----------------- > # Spotify URLs > /usr/local/bin/spotify %U > ^http://open.spotify.com/ > ^spotify: > > # Regular URLs > /usr/bin/chromium > ^http:// > ^https:// > ^ftp:// > > # E-mails > /usr/bin/thunderbird -compose > ^mailto: > -----------------8<----------------- > > This is enough to have working Spotify URLs. I guess that for VLC and > MMS streams, you would just need the following: > > -----------------8<----------------- > /usr/bin/vlc > ^mms: > -----------------8<----------------- > > To test mimeo, you should first try by running directly "mimeo > mms://my-url" in a shell, then "xdg-open mms://my-url", and finally from > Chromium. > > Does such a setup work for you? If it doesn't, could you please post > your mimeo.conf here? > > Regards, > > -- > Thomas/Schnouki > Can one also use this method to open downloaded files? E.g. I download a .torrent file, click to open it in the download tab and voila, there's rtorrent/transmission/.. loading the file? (Same with mp3, avi, pdf, ..) Regards, Adrian
