Arch Linux

Description:

xdg-open failed to work because it looks like it does not handle openbox correctly.
I dig in the code, and here is my observation.

I have a $DE environnement variable set to "openbox"

xdg-open try to look for current desktop Environnement, via detectDE() function.
In this function, xdg-open looks for an existing $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP env variable, which is NOT set on my computer. With this $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP, it then set locally a $DE variable.
But in my configuration, I'm not affected, so at the end of this detectDE(), i'm still with a $DE=openbox

See detectDE() in the additionnal info part for more clarity.

After this detectDE there is a case where there is the real problem. Because there is no handling for $DE=openbox, I jump directly in the *) which throw me an error.
Again, see the case part in additionnal info for more clarity.



Additional info:

xdg-open 1.1.0 rc1


detectDE()
{
# see https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=34164
unset GREP_OPTIONS

if [ -n "${XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP}" ]; then
case "${XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP}" in
ENLIGHTENMENT)
DE=enlightenment;
;;
GNOME)
DE=gnome;
;;
KDE)
DE=kde;
;;
LXDE)
DE=lxde;
;;
MATE)
DE=mate;
;;
XFCE)
DE=xfce
;;
esac
fi

if [ x"$DE" = x"" ]; then
# classic fallbacks
if [ x"$KDE_FULL_SESSION" != x"" ]; then DE=kde;
elif [ x"$GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID" != x"" ]; then DE=gnome;
elif [ x"$MATE_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID" != x"" ]; then DE=mate;
elif `dbus-send --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.DBus /org/freedesktop/DBus org.freedesktop.DBus.GetNameOwner string:org.gnome.SessionManager > /dev/null 2>&1` ; then DE=gnome;
elif xprop -root _DT_SAVE_MODE 2> /dev/null | grep ' = \"xfce4\"$' >/dev/null 2>&1; then DE=xfce;
elif xprop -root 2> /dev/null | grep -i '^xfce_desktop_window' >/dev/null 2>&1; then DE=xfce
elif echo $DESKTOP | grep -q '^Enlightenment'; then DE=enlightenment;
fi
fi

if [ x"$DE" = x"" ]; then
# fallback to checking $DESKTOP_SESSION
case "$DESKTOP_SESSION" in
gnome)
DE=gnome;
;;
LXDE|Lubuntu)
DE=lxde;
;;
MATE)
DE=mate;
;;
xfce|xfce4|'Xfce Session')
DE=xfce;
;;
esac
fi

if [ x"$DE" = x"" ]; then
# fallback to uname output for other platforms
case "$(uname 2>/dev/null)" in
Darwin)
DE=darwin;
;;
esac
fi

if [ x"$DE" = x"gnome" ]; then
# gnome-default-applications-properties is only available in GNOME 2.x
# but not in GNOME 3.x
which gnome-default-applications-properties > /dev/null 2>&1 || DE="gnome3"
fi
}



# Before the case, $DE=openbox for me

case "$DE" in
kde)
open_kde "$url"
;;

gnome*)
open_gnome "$url"
;;

mate)
open_mate "$url"
;;

xfce)
open_xfce "$url"
;;

lxde)
open_lxde "$url"
;;

enlightenment)
open_enlightenment "$url"
;;

generic)
open_generic "$url"
;;

*)
exit_failure_operation_impossible "no method available for opening '$url'"
;;
esac


Fix :

My fix is so far is to add a

openbox)
open_generic "$url"
;;

in the case