-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 13, 2015 at 10:19:49AM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > Hello, dear lazynet, > > I have a problem and I am not sure which is the best approach to tackle > it. > > Observation: various programs use the XDG mechanism (freedesktop > configuration method) to start a specific browser to visit a hyperlink. > Easy to verify with the xdg-open tool. > > But how can I change this setting in a persistent way especially when I > don't use Gnome or Kde or Xfce? I tried LxQt once and apparently the > stupid thing has reset some configuration and now xdg-open starts > Qupzilla which I don't like. Before, some other stupid program has reset > it to Chromium which I don't like either. > > How can I configure this, and do that in a way that is set persisently? > i.e. no program or package changes the setting to its own yard. > > NOTE: I will not install the monster just to change this simple setting.
If I were you, I'd just try to hi-jack xdg-open (it is, after all, just a shell script under /usr/bin) by installing an alternative one under /usr/local/bin (which comes before /usr/bin in the "usual" set up). Of course you'll call back into the original /usr/bin/xdg-open whenever convenient. In the most common case you just write a simple wrapper around /usr/bin/xdg-open. > Feels like things that have been established in a sane way (alternatives > system and sensible-browser) are now reverted to the chaos we used to > manage in the nineties :-( I feel your pain. Applications programmers have become lazy and now consider file system layout as a part of the "OS API", quabbling on whether something should be under /opt or /usr/local, instead of coping with it. regards - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlZtPCgACgkQBcgs9XrR2kbxiwCeOQ1B+EfkUTOV4RnIjvl/QW9H w18AnjERrGmUBqERh08z+zZ/BrFV7ndR =xV5o -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
