xdg-open with gnome shell

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Thu Jun 2 18:58:33 UTC 2011


Adam Pribyl wrote:

> Does anybody know what is a replacement for
> gnome-default-applications-properties, or how the setup of xdg-open
> should work under gnome shell?
> 
> For me
> $ xdg-open Pictures/
> which: no gnome-default-applications-properties in ..
> 
> xdg is looking for gnome-default-applications-properties binary, which is
> missing in gnome-shell and it fallbacks to KDE apps. Therefore I have
> many KDE apps autostarted in gnome instead (e.g. dolphin instead
> nautilus for the Picture case).
> 
> I did not found a bug about it, so it looks like this is working for
> everybody, but me?

See,
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=654746

and followup upstream commit,
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-
utils/commit/?id=94da2bc195a43c1fc957679ecbcac3ea9ed3189c

Erm, looks like I never released an update with that second piece. :(

Can you verify if making that adjustment makes it work for you?

-- Rex



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