Chad, I don't agree that "the XDG utilities aren't written very well."
The problem is that there's little agreement between both applications
and platforms on how defaults are detected, and the script is doing its
best to accommodate all the scenarios that cause issues. I believe I
have tried EVERY fix (short of installing testing versions from PPAs of
XDG-utils and Chromium) and Chromium STILL doesn't know that it's the
default browser.
~$ apt-cache policy xdg-utils; grep http ~/.config/mimeapps.list
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
xdg-utils:
Installed: 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4
Candidate: 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4
Version table:
*** 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4 0
500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
/home/USERNAME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list:x-scheme-handler/http=chromium.desktop
/home/USERNAME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list:x-scheme-handler/https=chromium.desktop
~$ uname -a
Linux debian 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2 (2017-04-30) x86_64
GNU/Linux
~$ lsb_release -d
Description: Debian GNU/Linux 8.8 (jessie)
~$ apt-cache policy chromium
chromium:
Installed: 57.0.2987.98-1~deb8u1
Candidate: 57.0.2987.98-1~deb8u1
Version table:
*** 57.0.2987.98-1~deb8u1 0
500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
/usr/bin/xdg-settings:
198# command="`grep -E "^Exec(\[[^]=]*])?=" "$file" | cut -d= -f 2- |
first_word`"
199 command="`grep -E "^Exec(\[[^]=]*])?=" "$file" | cut -d= -f 2- |
first_word | head -n 1`"
200# command="`grep -E "^Exec(\[[^]=]*])?=" "$file" | cut -d= -f 2- | sed
-e 's/ .*$//' | head -n 1`"
Each line uncommented in turn with no change in chrome://settings:
"Chromium is not currently your default browser."
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Shows "Chromium isn't your default browser" since 15.10.
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