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FS#28131 - xdg-open fails to detect chromium

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by eelon (eelon) - Friday, 27 January 2012, 18:14 GMT
Last edited by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Wednesday, 28 March 2012, 20:09 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:
xdg-open doesn't find the chromium browser because of the name, this can be very easily fixed either by making a symbolic link to /usr/bin/chromium-browser or changing the xdg-open script to find chromium

Additional info:
* package version(s)
* config and/or log files etc.


Steps to reproduce:
1. install openbox
2. install chromium
3. install pidgin (or whatever program you can find where you can click a link)
4. xdg-open tries to find a browser to open the link in, it fails because chromium is not in the browser list (however chromium-browser is)
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Closed by  Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis)
Wednesday, 28 March 2012, 20:09 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Comment by Evangelos Foutras (foutrelis) - Tuesday, 06 March 2012, 21:07 GMT
You could set the BROWSER variable to 'chromium'. [1]

Xfce's exo-open utility is going with 'chromium' as well. [2]

I'm not going to rename the chromium binary at this point; maybe a bug against xdg-open should be filed.

[1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Chromium#Default_browser
[2] http://git.xfce.org/xfce/exo/commit/?id=a8bd98

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