Xfce 4.10 - Default browser ignored on help

Sergio Cipolla secipolla at gmail.com
Sat May 26 20:22:15 UTC 2012


On 25 May 2012 20:08, Jim Dean <jdean55 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 25 May 2012 18:07, Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Am Dienstag, den 22.05.2012, 08:51 +1000 schrieb Jim Dean:
>>
>>
>> > Output of  'cat ~/.config/xfce4/helpers.rc' is
>> > WebBrowser=custom-WebBrowser
>> > FileManager=custom-FileManager
>> > TerminalEmulator=Terminal
>>
>> Please show me the content of
>> ~/.local/share/applications/custom-WebBrowser.desktop
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Christoph
>>
> Sorry Christoph
>
> Don't have
>>
>> ~/.local/share/applications/custom-WebBrowser.desktop
>>  but I do have
>
>  ~/.local/share/xfce4/helpers/custom-WebBrowser.desktop
> It contains
>
> [Desktop Entry]
> NoDisplay=true
> Version=1.0
> Encoding=UTF-8
> Type=X-XFCE-Helper
> X-XFCE-Category=WebBrowser
> X-XFCE-CommandsWithParameter=/usr/bin/google-chrome "%s"
> Icon=google-chrome
> Name=google-chrome
> X-XFCE-Commands=/usr/bin/google-chrome
>
> Creating a
> ~/.local/share/applications/custom-WebBrowser.desktop
> with the same content doesn't change anything (unless I should have logged
> out and back in first).
>
> Thanks
>
> Jim
>>
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Jim, what happens if you open the 'Preferred Applications' and choose 'Chomium'?
(setting Chrome as the default from within the browser doesn't work
properly as Xfce doesn't ship a helper for it and instead include it
in the 'Chromium' helper)


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