Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:08:46 -0700 > Kyle Terrien <kyleterrien@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> So, somehow my default web browser got changed from SeaMonkey back to >> Firefox. (Bleh!) >> >> [...] >> >> In ~/.local/share/applications/ (where user-customized .desktop files >> go), there were several files in the format >> userapp-<appname>-<short_hash>.desktop. >> >> userapp-Firefox-FIK3WX.desktop >> userapp-Pale Moon-1HNY8X.desktop >> userapp-SeaMonkey-YV09AY.desktop >> userapp-Thunderbird-PIZCZW.desktop > > If I'm not mistaken, those files and their associated mimeinfo entries > are created every time you set Firefox/SeaMonkey/PaleMoon as you > default browser, as the mechanism of such. > > ~Celti That's correct. I can confirm that if I go to SeaMonkey's Edit > Preferences and click "Set default browser", then a new userapp file is created. This userapp .desktop file is then inserted into ~/.config/mimeapps.list. Good catch, and thank you! $ ls .local/share/applications/ mimeinfo.cache userapp-SeaMonkey-45D4DY.desktop $ cat .local/share/applications/userapp-SeaMonkey-45D4DY.desktop [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Version=1.0 Type=Application NoDisplay=true Exec=/usr/lib/seamonkey-2.40/seamonkey %u Name=SeaMonkey Comment=Custom definition for SeaMonkey $ cat .local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache [MIME Cache] $ --Kyle
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