Evo 3.8.3, Fedora 19, KDE 4.10
I'm embarrassed to be asking this, but how do I set the default browser for embedded URLs to Chrome if I don't have the Gnome Desktop installed?
I know this is a FAQ, and I've even answered it myself in the past, but the rules seem to have changed. There is no longer a gnome-control-center app in the Fedora repositories, and the xdg* stuff is correctly set to google-chrome, as is $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
There seem to be far too many competing ways to set up default applications.
poc
On 18/07/13 15:21, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Evo 3.8.3, Fedora 19, KDE 4.10
I'm embarrassed to be asking this, but how do I set the default browser for embedded URLs to Chrome if I don't have the Gnome Desktop installed?
I know this is a FAQ, and I've even answered it myself in the past, but the rules seem to have changed. There is no longer a gnome-control-center app in the Fedora repositories, and the xdg* stuff is correctly set to google-chrome, as is $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
There seem to be far too many competing ways to set up default applications.
poc
Does the "Default Applications" section in KDE's "System Settings" have Chrome set?
On 07/18/13 20:21, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Evo 3.8.3, Fedora 19, KDE 4.10
I'm embarrassed to be asking this, but how do I set the default browser for embedded URLs to Chrome if I don't have the Gnome Desktop installed?
I know this is a FAQ, and I've even answered it myself in the past, but the rules seem to have changed. There is no longer a gnome-control-center app in the Fedora repositories, and the xdg* stuff is correctly set to google-chrome, as is $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
There seem to be far too many competing ways to set up default applications.
poc
Always fun....
Try installing gconf-editor and then going to desktop/gnome/applications/browser
The exec should be set to /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:21:52 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
There seem to be far too many competing ways to set up default applications.
There are near infinite numbers of ways, and if the app you are running doesn't pay attention to any of them, it doesn't even matter how many there are :-).
This was the nonsense I went through to try and get some stuff working the last time I wanted to change something:
On 07/18/13 20:41, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/18/13 20:21, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Evo 3.8.3, Fedora 19, KDE 4.10
I'm embarrassed to be asking this, but how do I set the default browser for embedded URLs to Chrome if I don't have the Gnome Desktop installed?
I know this is a FAQ, and I've even answered it myself in the past, but the rules seem to have changed. There is no longer a gnome-control-center app in the Fedora repositories, and the xdg* stuff is correctly set to google-chrome, as is $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
There seem to be far too many competing ways to set up default applications.
poc
Always fun....
Try installing gconf-editor and then going to desktop/gnome/applications/browser
The exec should be set to /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
I just realized how dumb that answer was..... You don't have the gnome desktop installed....so.....
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 15:36 +0300, Veeti Paananen wrote:
On 18/07/13 15:21, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Evo 3.8.3, Fedora 19, KDE 4.10
I'm embarrassed to be asking this, but how do I set the default browser for embedded URLs to Chrome if I don't have the Gnome Desktop installed?
I know this is a FAQ, and I've even answered it myself in the past, but the rules seem to have changed. There is no longer a gnome-control-center app in the Fedora repositories, and the xdg* stuff is correctly set to google-chrome, as is $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
There seem to be far too many competing ways to set up default applications.
poc
Does the "Default Applications" section in KDE's "System Settings" have Chrome set?
Yes. However as Evolution is a Gnome browser I don't expect it to pay any attention to that.
BTW I've only now noticed that I sent this to the Fedora Users list. I had meant to sent it to the Evolution list, which is why I didn't mention Evo explicitly. Apologies all round, but any information is still welcome.
poc
poc
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 21:07 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
Try installing gconf-editor and then going to
desktop/gnome/applications/browser
The exec should be set to /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome
I just realized how dumb that answer was..... You don't have the gnome desktop installed....so.....
In fact I had already tried installing gconf-editor, however as the rest of the Gnome environment isn't there the options it offers are limited and desktop/gnome/applications/browser is not one of them
Thanks all the same.
poc
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 09:01 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:21:52 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
There seem to be far too many competing ways to set up default applications.
There are near infinite numbers of ways, and if the app you are running doesn't pay attention to any of them, it doesn't even matter how many there are :-).
This was the nonsense I went through to try and get some stuff working the last time I wanted to change something:
Thanks, but .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list already contains:
[Default Applications] text/html=google-chrome.desktop
So the search continues. I'll take it over to the Evolution list as I originally intended.
poc
On 07/18/13 21:37, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Thanks all the same.
I just installed evo on my all KDE system......
Initially, it would start firefox when I clicked on a link....
I did....
xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler http google-chrome.desktop xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler https google-chrome.desktop
and, after restarting evolution, it does start chrome....
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 21:46 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/18/13 21:37, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Thanks all the same.
I just installed evo on my all KDE system......
Initially, it would start firefox when I clicked on a link....
I did....
xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler http google-chrome.desktop xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler https google-chrome.desktop
and, after restarting evolution, it does start chrome....
Nice, that worked for me, thanks. I had earlier tried:
xdg-settings get default-web-browser
which gave google-chrome.desktop, so I assumed I was on the wrong track, but your incantation does work.
poc
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Evo 3.8.3, Fedora 19, KDE 4.10
I'm embarrassed to be asking this, but how do I set the default browser for embedded URLs to Chrome if I don't have the Gnome Desktop installed?
I know this is a FAQ, and I've even answered it myself in the past, but the rules seem to have changed. There is no longer a gnome-control-center app in the Fedora repositories, and the xdg* stuff is correctly set to google-chrome, as is $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
There seem to be far too many competing ways to set up default applications.
Here's what I usually do:
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE \ xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME \ xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop
since xdg-settings generally only tweaks things for the current-running DE, I run it for each (KDE/GNOME), which handles most cases and applications.
-- rex
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 02:37:05PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
In fact I had already tried installing gconf-editor, however as the rest of the Gnome environment isn't there the options it offers are limited and desktop/gnome/applications/browser is not one of them
You want "Preferred applications". Somewhere in Settings, just search for it and you can change browser and other stuff.
On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 11:32 +0200, Olav Vitters wrote:
On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 02:37:05PM +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
In fact I had already tried installing gconf-editor, however as the rest of the Gnome environment isn't there the options it offers are limited and desktop/gnome/applications/browser is not one of them
You want "Preferred applications". Somewhere in Settings, just search for it and you can change browser and other stuff.
Since I don't have the full Gnome Desktop installed, there is no Settings tab.
poc
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:48:26 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
Since I don't have the full Gnome Desktop installed, there is no Settings tab.
poc
Is there check for "use as default" within browser options\tools ?
On Fri, 2013-07-19 at 11:04 +0100, Frank Murphy wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jul 2013 10:48:26 +0100 Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan@gmail.com wrote:
Since I don't have the full Gnome Desktop installed, there is no Settings tab.
poc
Is there check for "use as default" within browser options\tools ?
There is no "browser" tab either. This is a *very* basic set of Gconf options.
poc
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 14:33 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 15:36 +0300, Veeti Paananen wrote:
On 18/07/13 15:21, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Evo 3.8.3, Fedora 19, KDE 4.10
I'm embarrassed to be asking this, but how do I set the default browser for embedded URLs to Chrome if I don't have the Gnome Desktop installed?
I know this is a FAQ, and I've even answered it myself in the past, but the rules seem to have changed. There is no longer a gnome-control-center app in the Fedora repositories, and the xdg* stuff is correctly set to google-chrome, as is $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
There seem to be far too many competing ways to set up default applications.
poc
Does the "Default Applications" section in KDE's "System Settings" have Chrome set?
Yes. However as Evolution is a Gnome browser I don't expect it to pay any attention to that.
BTW I've only now noticed that I sent this to the Fedora Users list. I had meant to sent it to the Evolution list, which is why I didn't mention Evo explicitly. Apologies all round, but any information is still welcome.
---- just as an FYI - I asked the same question last month and crickets...
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-June/436458.html
Craig
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 11:43 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Evo 3.8.3, Fedora 19, KDE 4.10
I'm embarrassed to be asking this, but how do I set the default browser for embedded URLs to Chrome if I don't have the Gnome Desktop installed?
I know this is a FAQ, and I've even answered it myself in the past, but the rules seem to have changed. There is no longer a gnome-control-center app in the Fedora repositories, and the xdg* stuff is correctly set to google-chrome, as is $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
There seem to be far too many competing ways to set up default applications.
Here's what I usually do:
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE \ xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=GNOME \ xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop
since xdg-settings generally only tweaks things for the current-running DE, I run it for each (KDE/GNOME), which handles most cases and applications.
---- awesome - thanks
Craig
On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 21:46 +0800, Ed Greshko wrote:
On 07/18/13 21:37, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
Thanks all the same.
I just installed evo on my all KDE system......
Initially, it would start firefox when I clicked on a link....
I did....
xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler http google-chrome.desktop xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler https google-chrome.desktop
and, after restarting evolution, it does start chrome....
---- awesome - thanks
Craig