Re: [Evolution] Can't open URLs anymore

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Wed, 2022-09-28 at 00:26 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> On Mon, 2022-09-26 at 22:10 +0100, Evolution List Owner wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thanks poc,
>
> Your command yielded chromium.desktop. I posted my
> /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop at
> http://sprunge.us/P3twZB . I can't
> understand it --- I never dealt with xdg stuff before because I do
> very little
> clicking on icons.

See the man page for xdg-settings(1).

xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox.desktop

> I found no default-url-scheme-handler in the chromium.desktop file.

That's OK, it's often not set.

poc