On 27 May 2012 06:22, Sergio Cipolla <secipolla@gmail.com> wrote:
On 25 May 2012 20:08, Jim Dean <jdean55@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 25 May 2012 18:07, Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert@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
>>

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)

I tried changing the setting to Chromium, which I don't have, and then Midori which is installed. In both cases it open help in Firefox.

I'll try installing Chromium and try again if anyone thinks it is worth testing. Won't be for a day or 2 though.

This isn't an important problem just thought I'd report it. It happens on 2 systems with different configurations so I don't think it is a config issue but I might try testing with a new user too.