Hi again, Here's some more details of things I've tried:
I went to the gnome Preferred Applications and flipped the browser from my custom command to iceweasel. No dice, all links still open in chromium. I tried update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser (setting it to iceweasel) and even update-alternatives --config x-www-browser (setting it to midori) and still, all links open in chromium. OK, after strace and lots of digging and googling, I've discovered that gnome will obey the settings in $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications/mimeapps.list Wahoo! I also realized that I did a really bad job setting my XDG env vars, so some programs (like gnome panel, and the few programs I launched from it) were running without them set. I've rectified that. And still Preferred Applications seems to have little effect. But I've found something that does! So perhaps what needs to happen is that the Preferred Applications panel needs to update $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications/mimeapps.list? And what of the protocol handlers in gconf? Are those obsolete now? Thanks, - Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
