Bug#601743: /usr/bin/gnome-open: Re: gnome-open man page doesn't say how to change what programs are used to open files

Josselin Mouette joss at debian.org
Mon Feb 14 08:33:05 UTC 2011


Le vendredi 11 février 2011 à 21:45 -0500, Jason Woofenden a écrit : 
> This is still infuriating. Can someone please please point me
> towards some documentation on how to affect what programs
> gnome-open launches for protocols and file types?
> 
> Recently in unstable: gnome-terminal's right-click -> Open Link
> thing has been calling chromium instead of the browser I've set
> under System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications
> 
> So I checked, and gnome-open is doing the same thing.
> 
> The man page for gnome-open needs to say how to configure it.

My guess go for either of the HTTP url-handler
(/desktop/gnome/url-handlers) and the the HTML MIME association (that
you can see in the properties of a HTML file).

Another guess goes for chromium setting a high number alternative on
gnome-www-browser.

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