The bug is caused by a missing case label in /usr/bin/xdg-open. The
script correctly detects the xfce4 environment on my system, setting
the DG variable to 'xfce'. It then proceeds to completely ignore this
setting, falling through to the default action which is to show the
error message. The attached patch fixes the problem, for me at
least. I have used the suggested open_xfce4 function which uses
exo-open to open any files. That seems like a sensible default for
xfce4.
Regards,
Hein Zelle
--- xdg-open 2006-06-19 06:40:33.000000000 +0200
+++ xdg-open-patched 2006-08-28 16:32:34.000000000 +0200
@@ -335,6 +335,10 @@
open_gnome "$url"
;;
+ xfce)
+ open_xfce "$url"
+ ;;
+
generic)
open_generic "$url"
;;
