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Debian uses the freedesktop mime specs. You can also change things using update-alternatives. Browsers are a pain because most set themselves as the default when they get installed.
What is "xdg-open" and does it have something to do with this?
man xdg-open gives this:
Quote:
xdg-open(1) - Linux man page
Name
xdg-open - opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application
Synopsis
xdg-open {file URL}
xdg-open {--help --manual --version}
Description
xdg-open opens a file or URL in the user's preferred application. If a URL is provided the URL will be opened in the user's preferred web browser. If a file is provided the file will be opened in the preferred application for files of that type. xdg-open supports file, ftp, http and https URLs.
xdg-open is for use inside a desktop session only. It is not recommended to use xdg-open as root.
So it does have something to do with your default (preferred) application. It's used on the command line.
Cheers,
jdk
xdg-open
So it opens an URL with the user's "default browser".
If you are not running a DE, then AFAIK you have to specify the required application every time.
Description: desktop integration utilities from freedesktop.org
xdg-utils contains utilities for integrating applications with the
desktop environment, regardless of which desktop environment is used.
They are part of freedesktop.org's Portland project.
.
The following utilities are included:
.
* xdg-desktop-menu - Install desktop menu items
* xdg-desktop-icon - Install icons on the user's desktop
* xdg-icon-resource - Install icon resources
* xdg-mime - Gather MIME information about a file
* xdg-open - Open a URL in the user's preferred application that
handles the respective URL or file type
* xdg-email - Open the user's preferred email client, potentially with
subject and other info filled in
* xdg-screensaver - Enable, disable, or suspend the screensaver
* xdg-settings - get various settings (default web browser) from
the desktop environment
Homepage: http://portland.freedesktop.org/
From the man page:
Quote:
Examples
Get the desktop file name of the current default web browser
xdg-settings get default-web-browser
Check whether the default web browser is firefox.desktop, which can be false
even if "get default-web-browser" says that is the current value (if only some
of the underlying settings actually reflect that value)
That was nice. I would still like to know how exactly to see and modyfy the association for every MIME type, etc. but I'll try to search for that later.
It was also a good chance to try out the "Add Reputation" feature!
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