Excerpts from Mantas M.'s message of 2011-09-11 20:39:20 +0200:

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 08:26:53PM +0200, clemens fischer wrote:

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I have used "gconf-editor", added the directory chain

Very few programs still use the GConf settings. Most follow the XDG configuration at ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list:

[Default Applications] x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop text/html=firefox.desktop

The "x-scheme-handler/*" entries are for "http:" and "https:" URLs respectively, and "text/html" is for opening local HTML files.

Is this config file also managed through gconf or something? I mean I really appreciate that it's a text file but it's the first time I heard of it and it seems this kind of stuff changes faster than I can say wtf (text files to xdg files to gconf to other xdg files). I'm really confused. I also wonder what the strange additional strings in there mean, example: application/x-extension-html=userapp-Firefox-3WKO0V.desktop

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:50:06AM +0200, Philipp Überbacher wrote:

Is this config file also managed through gconf or something? I mean I really appreciate that it's a text file but it's the first time I heard of it and it seems this kind of stuff changes faster than I can say wtf (text files to xdg files to gconf to other xdg files). I'm really

No. Both GNOME ("Open with"/"Preferred programs") and KDE 4 edit the file directly; Gconf is generally not used anymore for file type associations. See the "MIME Actions specification" on freedesktop: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-actions-spec

confused. I also wonder what the strange additional strings in there mean, example: application/x-extension-html=userapp-Firefox-3WKO0V.desktop

"application/x-extension-html" probably means all files having the '.html' extension, regardless of automatically-determined MIME type. (For example, if you rename a .jpeg file to .html, it will *still* be detected as image/jpeg, but matching by extension will take priority.) "userapp-*.desktop" files are created when you manually specify the path to your program in the "Open With..." window (the 'other' choice).

Mantas M. wrote:

On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 08:26:53PM +0200, clemens fischer wrote:

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I have used "gconf-editor", added the directory chain

Very few programs still use the GConf settings. Most follow the XDG configuration at ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list:

[Default Applications] x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop text/html=firefox.desktop

The "x-scheme-handler/*" entries are for "http:" and "https:" URLs respectively, and "text/html" is for opening local HTML files.

Bingo-Bongi! You get to wear the masters hat and here's the cookie O! clemens

Uli Armbruster [2011-09-11T21:50 CEST]:

* clemens fischer [11.09.2011 20:35]:

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Hi,

when using eg. "evince" to view a PDF document, links open in "epiphany", which seems to be a gnome default browser.

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Does somebody know how to change the setting for default-browser when no desktop is used?

Put

export BROWSER=your_browser

into your bashrc, zshrc or into a file you put into /etc/profile.d, depending on what you want.

some application (in my case e.g. google earth) doesn't work correctly by putting BROWSER variable into ~/.zshrc. I've solved by putting the following into ~/.xprofile: BROWSER='/usr/bin/firefox' export BROWSER -- It is perfectly possible, in theory and historically, to have efficient and courteous police, competent and learned judges, and a body of systematic and socially accepted law—and none of these things being furnished by a coercive government. --Murray N. Rothbard