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s.hum

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Registered: 2011-12-05

Posts: 24

[solved] Synapse (launcher) not respecting default browser settings

Nor launchy, regardless of what /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser and /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser are set to.

I've done all the checks through ~/.local/share/applications/ and ~/.gconf mime and defaults files, and manually set exo-preferred-applications, to no avail.

Any ideas where the setting may lie? Interestingly, when google-chrome (Google .deb package) is installed, chrome lauches when bookmarks are launched from synapse. When chrome is removed, iceweasel launches. So a setting somewhere is being set.

Runnng openbox #! 2012, upgraded to sid.

Thanks in advance,
S

Last edited by s.hum (2012-03-18 00:31:49)

s.hum

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Registered: 2011-12-05

Posts: 24

Re: [solved] Synapse (launcher) not respecting default browser settings

Well, I found a kludge that appears to work - not perhaps the best way (it doesn't explain how chrome asserts itself as the default browser when installed) but...

From iceweasel preferences, making it the default browser updates the ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list file with several iceweasel application references. Changing the "iceweasel.desktop" references seemed to do the job (in my case, to luakit.desktop, which now opens url's passed from Synapse).

Last edited by s.hum (2012-03-18 00:37:36)