I've seen this happen in Openbox using Chromium (it uses xdg-email).
xdg-email tries to handle DEs with these functions:
open_gnome
open_gnome3
open_xfce
open_generic
If you have LXDE or a "generic" environment such as Openbox, you get
open_generic
IFS=":"
for browser in $BROWSER; do
if [ x"$browser" != x"" ]; then
browser_with_arg=`printf "$browser" "$1" 2>/dev/null`
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then browser_with_arg=$browser;
fi
if [ x"$browser_with_arg" = x"$browser" ]; then "$browser"
"$1";
else $browser_with_arg;
fi
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then exit_success;
fi
fi
done
exit_failure_operation_impossible "no method available for opening
'$1'"
... so what happens when clicking a mailto: link is a new browser
window, instead of your email client defined by xdg-mime.
Besides a grep error (grep: /home/<user>/.local/share/applications/: Is
a directory) using open_gnome3 instead of open_generic works as
expected. You can replace gvfs-open with xdg-open there.
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