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

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