On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 16:05 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 14:44 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > Evo 3.8.3, Fedora 19, KDE 4.10 > > > > [I originally sent this to the Fedora Users list by mistake, but despite > > getting several replies I couldn't solve it, so I'm resending here which > > is what I had meant to do in the first place. -- poc] > > > > 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. > > Thanks to Ed Greshko <[email protected]> on the Fedora Users list, > the correct incantation is: > > xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler http google-chrome.desktop > xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler https google-chrome.desktop > > Note: My "default-web-browser" setting was already correct -- presumably > it had been set by KDE Settings -- but didn't solve the problem. This > does.
A couple of additional points: 1) xdg-settings is in the xdg-utils package on Fedora. 2) Evolution may need to be restarted for the settings to take effect. poc _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
