FS#17532 - [chromium] cannot be setup as default web browser

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by mikes (mechmg93) - Wednesday, 16 December 2009, 23:31 GMT
Last edited by Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227) - Tuesday, 16 February 2010, 21:43 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 4
Private No

Details

i installed chromium from extra (4.0.249.30-2) and i set it up as default web browser. Whenever i restart chromium it always keep asking.

I also tried to set it from both kde systemsettings and xdg-settings from terminal with the same negative result.

Actually, it seems that chromium is my default browser(for example i click a link from kmail and chromium opens) but this cannot be "understood" by the application.
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Closed by  Dan Griffiths (Ghost1227)
Tuesday, 16 February 2010, 21:43 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Additional comments about closing:  Due to the way chromium is currently built it expects the user to be using a DE. For those of us using WMs, you have to set export DE="whatever" in our bashrc. If you want to see this behavior changed, please petition the upstream devs.
Comment by Neil Munro (niadh) - Wednesday, 06 January 2010, 13:02 GMT
Itś been a little while since you posted this bug, can you just confirm the bug still exists? I will check my system the next time I get some time at it and see if theres possibly an easy solution for you.
Comment by Nick (nickoe) - Friday, 08 January 2010, 10:03 GMT
It is because you dint use a Desktop Enviroment, and chromium uses xdg-open. http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=81282

The easy workaround is to put:
export DE="gnome"
into your .bashrc
Comment by Thomas Dziedzic (tomd123) - Saturday, 06 February 2010, 05:24 GMT
Decision?

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