[arch-general] no desktop: howto change default browser?

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Le 12/09/11, Philipp Überbacher <hollunder at lavabit.com> a écrit :


> 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:
> > > 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

Got them too.
I think those ones are created together with the desktop file everytime
you answer yes when firefox asks you to be your default browser (after
every upgrade for example).

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