Re: [Evolution] Could not open the link

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

On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 13:55 +0100, Milan Crha wrote:

> On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 11:54 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> > On Thu, 2017-11-16 at 08:55 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:

> > > or for newer systems 

> > > 

> > >  gio mime x-scheme-handler/http

> > > 

> > > from that you should be able to see the available handlers. You set it

> > > to what you want with

> > 

> > Thanks Pete. As a non-Gnome user I'm continually astonished at Gnome's

> > ability to keep moving the goalposts regarding settings. I had no idea

> > this thing even existed. A glance at the man page tells me: "gio is a

> > utility that makes many of the GIO features available from the

> > commandline", which tells me precisely nothing.

> 

> 	Hi,

> maybe because this comes even lower than to gio, as the more generic

> tool is xdg-mime, which has similar arguments as gio tool.

I've used xdg-* in the past, but it has its own quirks as well. I found I had to edit ~/.config/mimeapps.list and run:

sudo update-desktop-database -q

to get it to work reliably. "xdg-settings set ..." simply didn't work as advertised.

poc