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L A Walsh composed on 2017-06-13 12:34 (UTC-0700):
Let me rephrase a previous Q -- . When some program tries to show a URL, it invokes your "default browser". How does it know what your default browser is and where is that set? . Is it a symlink somewhere in your home directory, or a text file with the browser name in it? Or what? . IMO, looks like, unless you are using Plasma, in which case Knurpht already answered for it specifically, a good starting point is here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Default_applications which indicates WRT XDG compliant DEs/WMs:
~/.config/mimeapps.list is for user overrides /etc/xdg/mimeapps.list is for global overrides /usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list is for distro defaults e.g., for Chrome web browser to override de/distro/global HTML file default of Firefox: file: ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list content: [Default Applications] text/html=google-chrome.desktop -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org