[opensuse] Re: Where is default browser set? (& hope no one is logged in via WiFi)

Patrick Shanahan wrote:

* L A Walsh [06-13-17 15:36]:

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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?

not knowing what desktop you are using and knowing that it may be completely home-grown, in kde/plasma5 you set it with systemsettings5 --> applications --> default applications --> web browser

in xfce it is something similar but not systemsettings5.

This is the case where I'm not using a desktop, but am running a standalone X-application (like the LSI disk-management GUI that runs under X11). When I click on a link in an application (not under a desktop), it starts a browser on the ssh-target system and displays it via X on the ssh-source system, apparently using information from: ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list ) To test the "xdg-open" command, I used google's search page which opened in the background. Nevertheless, in background, it used a bit over 9MB/s to display the animation on it's search page -- not a problem for me, but it does seem 80Mb/s might be a stretch for somebody on WiFI. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org