On 10/20/16 07:06, James Pearson wrote:
> Mark LaPierre wrote:
>> Has anyone figured out how to make Firefox 45.4.0 on CentOS 6 use xdgurl
>> to handle xdg:// URLs?
>>
>> Google is full of suggestions that don't work. When I select a an
>> xdg:// link I don't get a dialog asking me what to do like Google says I
>> will. Instead I get a message that says Firefox doesn't have a clue how
>> to handle this URL. Do you want to try again?
>>
>> I tried about:config
>>
>> I added:
>>
>> network.protocol-handler.external.xdg user set string /usr/bin/zdgurl
>
> I don't think those types of prefs are used any more ?
>
> A lot of the information out there on adding protocol handlers to
> Firefox on Linux is out of date or wrong ...
>
> A couple of ways that work for me (on CentOS 6, using Gnome) with
> Firefox 45:
>
> 1. Create the file $HOME/.local/share/applications/xdg containing
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> Name=xdg
> Type=Application
> Exec=/usr/bin/xdgurl %U
> Terminal=false
> MimeType=x-scheme-handler/xdg;
> NoDisplay=true
>
> Then run:
>
> desktop-file-install $HOME/.local/share/applications/xdgdesktop \
> --rebuild-mime-info-cache --dir=$HOME/.local/share/applications
>
> Start firefox and browse to a xdg:// URL - it still prompts for the
> application use the first time - but after that, it should work OK
>
> Note: I haven't actually done this for an 'xdg' protocol handler - but
> it works for launching other apps using other custom protocol handlers
>
> 2. Set up a protocol handler in a central autoconfig 'mozilla.cfg' file
> using Javascript - this is the method I use to automatically add a
> protocol handler for all users (and doesn't require any user
> intervention) - let me if you want more details about this method
>
> James Pearson
Hey James,
Thanks for the detailed response. Just a minor error. The file name
must have a .desktop extension like this:
1. Create the file $HOME/.local/share/applications/xdg.desktop containing:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=xdg
Type=Application
Exec=/usr/bin/xdgurl %U
Terminal=false
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/xdg;
NoDisplay=true
Then run:
desktop-file-install $HOME/.local/share/applications/xdg.desktop \
--rebuild-mime-info-cache --dir=$HOME/.local/share/applications
I restarted Firefox then I went to visit:
https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1157815/
I clicked on the [Install] button.
I got the dialog box where I chose the handler /usr/bin/xdgurl
I did not get the install dialog.
In a shell:
[mlapier@peach ~]$ which xdgurl
/usr/bin/xdgurl
[mlapier@peach ~]$ xdgurl
"xdg://install?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.opendesktop.org%2Fapi%2Ffiles%2Fdownload%2Fid%2F1476439340%2Frmfixed.bdf&type=fonts&filename=rmfixed.bdf"
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/usr/bin/xdgurl", line 21, in <module>
if sys.version_info.major >= 3:
AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'major'
[mlapier@peach ~]$
No joy,
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