xdg-open with gnome shell

Samuel Sieb samuel at sieb.net
Thu Jun 2 18:51:21 UTC 2011


Mathieu Bouffard wrote:
> On 06/02/2011 02:25 PM, 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 ..
>>
I get that same error.

>> 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 do get nautilus showing up though.  But then I don't have any KDE apps installed.

>> I did not found a bug about it, so it looks like this is working for
>> everybody, but me?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Adam Pribyl
>
> Did you set your preferred applications in system settings ->  system
> info ->  Default applications? (new spot since gnome-shell) If you did
> and it really ignores that then it's safe to say that it should be filed
> as a bug.
>
There is no entry in there for file managers.


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