Re: [xmonad] Xmonad, beagle-search, and mime types

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Damian wrote:

On Sun, Feb 21, 2010 at 6:33 PM,   wrote:

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I've been fighting with xdg-open myself, having just switched to chromium. It turns out it's a pretty readable shell script (open it up in your favorite editor and have a look!). Here's approximately what it does:

* is there a KDE session running? use kde-open, fall back to kfmclient * is there a Gnome session running? use gvfs-open, fall back to gnome-open * is there an XFCE session running? use exo-open * try, in order: mimeopen, run-mailcap, $BROWSER, firefox, mozilla, netscape

So, probably what's happening to you is that you aren't running KDE, Gnome, or XFCE, you don't have mimeopen or run-mailcap installed, and you haven't set $BROWSER.

I export BROWSER=gnome-open and love it, but old versions do have a bug where gnome-open totally ignores .local/share/applications/defaults.list, so make sure to update gnome-open!

Good luck, ~d Thanks a lot for the answer. I see if I can fix it that way. Indeed, I just exported BROWSER=gnome-open and it worked fine (I should have hacked xdg-open). Thanks again.

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Quoting Damian :

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Hello,

I don't consider myself a smart person. Even my mom used to say that I wasn't so bright. But still, should this be so damn difficult?

'beagle-search' is a front end for the beagle desktop search engine. When you issue a query, the application shows you icons (which represent files) with the result of the query. If you click on the icon, the file will be opened with the default application. The problem is that I cannot set the default application by any means. For instance I would like to open jpeg image files using geeqie.

I've failed miserably in trying to associate filetypes to applications, using beagle search. The application beagle-search uses xdg-open to open applications. If a filetype has no application associated, then the default handler is firefox (don't ask me why).

So I tried to see how xdg-open works, but the man page didn't give me any useful information. The related command, xdg-mime, doesn't work as I expected.

I've created a file called geeqie.desktop in the directory /home/damian/.local/share/applications with the following contents:  [Desktop Entry]  Encoding=UTF-8  Name=Geeqie  Exec=geeqie  MimeType=image/jpeg  Icon=exec  NoDisplay=true

Then I've tried to associate geeqie with jpeg files by running:    xdg-mime default geeqie.desktop image/jpeg

The command terminates successfully, and after running    xdg-mime query default image/jpeg I get as output "geeqie.desktop".

But xdg-open (and therefore beagle-search) still refuses to open jpeg images with geeqie.

Any ideas?

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