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!

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