Does not respect "xdg-open" for links

[Lukas Sabota]

Hello,

I am running 64 bit Arch Linux with python 2.72 and terminator 0.96. When I hold the CTRL key and click on a link, firefox is opened to display the link. However, when I "xdg-open http://google.com" from the command line, chrome is opened (which is set to be the default browser in XFCE, which uses the xdg fd.o standard).

I'd be happy to provide any additional information to debug and resolve this bug report. I have not gotten a chance to take a look at the source to debug it myself, but I'm not sure if this is a known issue or perhaps a packaging issue that I can resolve.

I've also tried grabbing the source myself from "bzr branch lp:terminator" and running terminator, but I run into the same issue.

Here is the output of "terminator -d" while I open terminator, run "echo "http://google.com"" and click on the link to test the functionality: http://pastebin.com/sT7tXXR2

By the way, terminator rocks!

[Lukas Sabota (punkrockguy318)]

The gconf key "/desktop/gnome/applications/browser" is also set to "chromium". (I was referring to chromium earlier as my default browser, I apologize for the confusion)

I'm running with GTK2 2.24.6 and PyGTK 2.24.0. I'd be happy to provide any additional information neccessary.

[hasufell (jd-o)]

terminators primary method to open urls is "gtk.show_uri" which is available since PyGTK 2.14 and now depends on mime-types, not on gconf-settings.

You have to add something like this to your ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list

[Default Applications]
x-scheme-handler/http=chrome.desktop

if gtk.show_uri is not available or the pygtk version is too old, terminator falls back to xdg-open. If xdg-open fails for any reason it falls back to "webbrowser.open" which uses the BROWSER environment variable.

[hasufell (jd-o)]

Removes 'gtk.show_uri' method, so xdg-open will always be respected. Still falls back to 'webbrowser.open' if that fails.

[Chris Jones (cmsj)]

trunk now has a config option to force a specific URL handler, so you can set it to /usr/bin/xdg-open and be done forever. It will be in the next release.

[Lukas Sabota (punkrockguy318)]

Sounds good! Very glad to see this issue addressed and resolved :D