<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 28 May 2015 at 13:06, Tim <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au" target="_blank">ignored_mailbox@yahoo.com.au</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Ed Greshko:<br>
&gt;&gt; xdg-settings get default-web-browser<br>
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Kevin Cummings:<br>
<span class="">&gt; For me it returns: &quot;xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment&quot;<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; B^)  I run MATE desktops.<br>
<br>
</span>Likewise, on both counts.  While I don&#39;t use Thunderbird, other things<br>
do open the right web browser (for my personally set preference).  And<br>
for further information, just following up on something later on in the<br>
thread:<br>
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[tim@fluffy ~]$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser<br>
xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment<br>
<br>
[tim@fluffy ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler<br>
xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment<br>
<br>
[tim@fluffy ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler<br>
xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment<br>
<span class=""></span><br></blockquote></div><br clear="all"></div><div class="gmail_extra">You can edit ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list manually, in the [Default Applications] section put this:<br>text/html=google-chrome.desktop<br>x-scheme-handler/https=google-chrome.desktop<br>x-scheme-handler/http=google-chrome.desktop<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature">Ahmad Samir</div>
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