Thanks for the quick response. I started having problems when I clicked on
the wrong button and inadvertently
made Firefox my default browser. Since I did that, I can't get the Chrome
"Default Browser" dialog to work. I click
the button and nothing apparently happens. The setting isn't saved. It
had been working fine from a clean install
before I had installed Firefox and accidently made it my default browser.
It appears that Firefox did something which is now
preventing Chrome to be chosen as the default.
I did happen to find this bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/1509139
Apparently there is an issue with xdg-utils which is causing the problem
with specifically with Chrome/Chromium.
How exactly setting Firefox as default triggered it, I have no idea.
So may be multiple issues going on in my case.
I did try the command you suggested, but no luck. Perhaps it is related to
the above bug.
In any event I really appreciate you taking the time to reply. Thanks
again!
On Mon, Feb 29, 2016 at 4:21 PM, Peter Mattern <pmatt...@arcor.de> wrote:
> Am 29.02.2016 um 21:57 schrieb Gerald B. Cox:
> > Trying to figure out how to make Chrome the default browser but when I
> > try
> > to put in anything other that qupzilla or konqueror, it doesn't stick.
> >
> > I'm trying to update Default Applications under LXQt Session Settings...
> >
>
> "LXQt Session Settings" (binary lxqt-config-session) is just setting
> some environment variables which are basically ignored by most
> applications these days.
>
> What applications do care about are settings according to the "MIME
> Applications Associations / Specification" [0].
> Dialogue "File Associations" (binary lxqt-config-file-associations) is
> implementing this spec by writing in
> $XDG_DATA_HOME/applications/mimeapps.list but doesn't cover network
> protocols like HTTP or FTP yet.
>
> So for now you have to stick with the command line, exactly speaking
> with binary xdg-mime and its not so intuitive syntax.
> A line like
> xdg-mime default firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/http # (or https)
> should do the trick.
>
> Setting default applications is for sure still one of the rough edges of
> LXQt. You may want to have a look at the discussion in [1]
>
> [0] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/mime-apps-spec/
> [1] https://github.com/lxde/lxqt/issues/433
>
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