Nevermind my last comment. This works in chromium (no idea about snapd). To get this to work in chromium, first make sure it works for xdg-open.
Click on the link that you want to be opened automatically in some application. When it downloaded, right-click on it (the button that appeared on the bottom) and select "Always open files of this type"; this will cause chromium to use xdg-open next time you open a file of that type. To make xdg-open work, run "xdg-mime query filetype the-downloaded-file", this should print the correct mime type. Then run "xdg-mime query default that-mime-type", this should print the desktop file that you want to use, aka "myapplication.desktop". Inside that .desktop then (.local/share/applications/the-file.desktop), there should be the lines Exec=/path/your/application and MimeType=that-mime-type Anyway, plenty of tutorial on xdg on the net. I missed the chromium trick to make it use xdg-open in the first place. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to chromium-browser in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873 Title: Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps Status in snapd: Triaged Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/7952972d4897e085030b288e44dc98b824f6723a/userd/launcher.go#L55 snapd has a hard-coded list of allowed URL schemes. Currently that is limited to "http", "https", "mailto", "snap". We have a number of applications in the store which are trying to use protocol handlers outside this scope and break when that's not possible. e.g. Telegram Desktop: tg:/ Github Desktop: git:/ IRCCloud Desktop: irc:/ These are the ones I know of, others may also be affected. Can we please at least expand the list to those that we know of, and perhaps research other popular protocol handlers? Ideally we wouldn't have a whitelist, because this delays our ability to land new applications with as-yet unknown url schemes. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/snapd/+bug/1776873/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
