On Monday, May 1, 2017 at 4:37:37 PM UTC-4, [email protected] wrote: > Gaiko [2017-05-01 21:34 +0200]: > > On Wednesday, June 22, 2016 at 2:38:22 PM UTC-4, Micah Lee wrote: > > > I published a quick blog post explaining how I do this: > > > > > > https://micahflee.com/2016/06/qubes-tip-opening-links-in-your-preferred-appvm/ > > > > This would be awesome, I gave it a try but for some reason can't seem to > > get it to work, that is getting a link from an email in tbird to open up in > > a browser in my work vm. > > > > I created an ~/.local/share/applications/open_work_vm.desktop > > > > edited the exec line: > > > > [Desktop Entry] > > Encoding=UTF-8 > > Name=WorkBrowserVM > > Exec=qvm-open-in-vm work %u > > Terminal=false > > X-MultipleArgs=false > > Type=Application > > Categories=Network;WebBrowser; > > MimeType=x-scheme-handler/unknown;x-scheme-handler/about;text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https; > > > > ran xdg-settings: > > > > xdg-settings set default-web-browser open_work_vm.desktop > > > > (it created a mimeapps.list file) then tried it, nada. > > > > I tried restarting the browser, then the tbirdVM, then the workvm, each > > time clicking on the link in the email in tbird and hoping the default > > browser (firefox) would pop up in my workVM. Instead nothing happened, the > > workVM didn't start up, firefox didn't open up (when I pre-started the work > > vm), and a tab didn't pop up when the workvm and ff were both pre-started. > > > > I would really like to get this working for a variety of reasons, actually > > the absolute best would be to click on a link in tbird (or right click in a > > browser) and have a menu that gave a few options of where I'd like to open > > a page up like in a dispvm, anonvm, or just another regular appvm. > > > > Thoughts? >
I will reply to your comments and then go read your how-to (i fear it might be over my head as I am an absolute desktop/qvm-open-in-vm noob but I am sure it will be a good start!) > What happens if you run `qvm-open-in-vm work https://qubes-os.org` in > tbirdVM it seems to work just fine that way > and when you run xdg-open https://qubes-os.org in the work VM > (without the quotes)? ok, xdg-open I hadn't tried. But regardless this seems to work fine as well. > > I actually just finished a how-to on setting default applications and > qvm-open-in-(d)vm: > https://github.com/QubesOS/qubes-doc/pull/379/files?short_path=83ca4e2#diff-83ca4e28de9bcee331783522a52c2bd0 > (Any comments would be appreciated.) > > -- > ubestemt wil check it out! -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/3a5da29d-61ad-4d27-96c2-8f7bffe13396%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
