Re: [Evolution] Changing the default browser for embedded URLs SOLVED

["Patrick O'Callaghan" <poc usb ve>]

On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 14:44 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Evo 3.8.3, Fedora 19, KDE 4.10
>
> [I originally sent this to the Fedora Users list by mistake, but despite
> getting several replies I couldn't solve it, so I'm resending here which
> is what I had meant to do in the first place. -- poc]
>
> I'm embarrassed to be asking this, but how do I set the default browser
> for embedded URLs to Chrome if I don't have the Gnome Desktop installed?
>
> I know this is a FAQ, and I've even answered it myself in the past, but
> the rules seem to have changed. There is no longer a
> gnome-control-center app in the Fedora repositories, and the xdg* stuff
> is correctly set to google-chrome, as is
> $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
>
> There seem to be far too many competing ways to set up default
> applications.

Thanks to Ed Greshko <Ed Greshko greshko com> on the Fedora Users list,
the correct incantation is:

xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler http google-chrome.desktop
xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler https google-chrome.desktop

Note: My "default-web-browser" setting was already correct -- presumably
it had been set by KDE Settings -- but didn't solve the problem. This
does.

poc