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pablo_supertux
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 Posted: Fri May 24, 2024 8:56 pm Post subject: xdg-open with custom handler does not work [solved] |
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Hi
I want the xdg-open opens http and https links either on google-chrome or firefox depending on certain conditions. So I created my own bash script that checks for these conditions and select the correct browser.
Then I created a .desktop file that would call this script of mine. The file is called /home/shaoran/.local/share/applications/url-open.desktop and looks like this:
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Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Name=url-open
GenericName=Web Browser
Type=Application
Exec=/home/shaoran/local/bin/url-open %f
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
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Then I set the default entry like this:
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xdg-mime default url-open.desktop x-scheme-handler/http
xdg-mime default url-open.desktop x-scheme-handler/https
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I also noticed that tab-completion with xdg-mime default <TAB><TAB> would show me lots of .desktop files but url-open.desktop is not in the list. Do I need to do something else to register a .desktop file other than put it in ~/.local/share/applications?
I checked my ~/.config/mimeapps.list and I can see
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[Default Applications]
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x-scheme-handler/http=url-open.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=url-open.desktop
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and xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http also returns url-open.desktop.
But when I test it, it still not using my script but opens a new tab in firefox and I get this error message:
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$ xdg-open http://google.com
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 1032: x-www-browser: command not found
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I searched for this error message and found this https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=755553#c9
That would explain why I'm getting this error message. However, if I do
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xdg-mime default url-open.desktop x-scheme-handler/http
xdg-mime default url-open.desktop x-scheme-handler/https
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and then run xdg-open http://google.com, then the link is opened in google-chrome and the x-www-browser: command not found messages does not appear.
Why is this the case? What am I doing wrong?
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pablo_supertux
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I know now what the error is: in the .desktop file the Exec line should be this
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Exec=/home/shaoran/local/bin/url-open %U
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Using %U instead of %f does the trick.
Debugging shell scripts can be such a pain and I realized that xdg-open simply skips the .desktop file if the argument is %f. So I looked up the specs and found this: https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s07.html There it says I should use %u for a single url and %U for multiple urls. I checked in the google-chrome.desktop file and there %U is being used as well.
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