[arch-general] associations for chromium

[howitzer at archlinux.us]

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