ok, i found a workaround i saw that chromium uses xdg-open and xdg seems to take care about the MimeType values in .desktop files
so i created a new desktop file for Lotus named /usr/share/applications/LotusNotes8.5-url.desktop with this content [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Lotus Notes 8.5 Url Type=Application Exec=/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/../notes-wrapper %u Icon=/opt/ibm/lotus/notes/framework/shared/eclipse/features/com.ibm.notes.links.feature_8.5.2.20100811-1131/icons/notes.ico Terminal=false Categories=Application;Office; MimeType=x-scheme-handler/notes NoDisplay=true note the %u instead of %F and the NoDisplay key same thing for Spotify with /usr/share/application/spotify-uri.desktop [Desktop Entry] Name=Spotify GenericName=Spotify Comment=Listen to music using Spotify Icon=spotify-linux-512x512 TryExec=spotify Exec=spotify -uri %u Terminal=false Type=Application Categories=Qt;AudioVideo MimeType=x-scheme-handler/spotify NoDisplay=true i don't know if this is the right way to enable custom url-handlers so, Are the gconf values deprecated? -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/788673 Title: unable to open link with custom url-handlers -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
