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layout: post
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title: "Chaging default browser for GNOME on Debian"
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date: 2017-10-11 11:25:00 +0200
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comments: true
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categories:
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---
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Problem position
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I have `chromium` and `firefox-esr` installed. I want `gvfs-open`
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to default to the latter when opening a web URL.
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Alternatives
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============
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There are /etc/alternatives entries for `x-www-browser` and
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`gnome-www-browser` that can be manually edited using
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# update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser
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# update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
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Unsuprisingly, this won't have the desired effect. Life
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would be too simple...
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GNOME MIME
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==========
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The default browser for GNOME applications is determined using
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`gvfs-mime`. Per-user overrides can be specified in
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`~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list`. System-wide
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defaults are generated by `update-desktop-database` and
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stored in `/usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache`.
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Quoting https://wiki.debian.org/MIME:
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> The mimeinfo.cache is basically a raw reverse cache for the
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> .desktop information. There is no way to define priorities in it.
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> To be able to specify default applications, a mimeapps.list file
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> (previously named defaults.list up to debian 5) must be created.
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> It can be system-wide (in /usr/share/applications or a subdirectory)
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> or user-specific (in $HOME/.local/share/applications).
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And indeed the fix was to reorder the list from `mimeinfo.cache`,
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and create the following file:
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```plain /usr/share/applications/mimeapps.list
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[Default Applications]
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x-scheme-handler/http=firefox-esr.desktop;chromium.desktop;google-chrome.desktop;
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x-scheme-handler/https=firefox-esr.desktop;chromium.desktop;google-chrome.desktop;
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```
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