Re: [Evolution] Can't open URLs anymore

[Evolution List Owner <poc usb ve>]

On Mon, 2022-09-26 at 12:17 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Just today for the first time, when I click a URL link in the body of
> a message I
> receive, I get error: "Could not open the link: Failed to execute
> child process
> "/usr/libexec/gio-launch-desktop" (No such file or directory).
>
> I checked, and it's true that there's no /usr/libexec/gio-launch-
> desktop on my
> computer. This symptom just started happening today: Before today
> clicking on a URL
> brought up the URL in Firefox.
>
> Evolution version 3.44.4.
>
> How can I start to narrow down this problem?

Try xdg-settings, e.g.:

$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
firefox.desktop

and change it (using 'xdg-settings set ...' if it looks wrong. The
default-url-scheme-handler may also need to be set.

poc