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Cleared cached thumbnailer?
I am trying to create a thumbnailer entry
[Thumbnailer Entry]
MimeType=application/x-wad64;
Exec=my_command
It looks like it is picked up correctly by Thunar. However, changing the command has no ...
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Portable way to set custom URL scheme handler for all users
I already know how to create a custom URL scheme and set its handler using xdg-utils:
xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler name handler.desktop
However, the command affects only the current ...
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How to set all youtube links to open in mpv
I would like to set my system to open all links is mpv as default ie. I click link to youtube video in IRC, mumble, discord, signal etc. it opens in mpv. I have read through xdg-open and xdg-mime but ...
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xdg-open opens my .desktop file in text viewer or editor instead of launching the executable I want
I tried to create a .desktop file to launch xfreerdp with certain command-line arguments, using https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Desktop_entries as a quick reference. Its file name is something....
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xdg-scheme-handler doesn't open script with same terminal that launching it from a desktop menu does
I'm trying to set a x-scheme-handler URI for my python application. This application is launched via a shell script in /usr/bin. I've had a desktop file for a while, and it's worked fine, opening the ...
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Why is Chromium the default application for every MIME type?
I've configured a pretty standard Arch Linux desktop environment, and every file type I've tried so far (MP4, PDF, PNG, etc) opens in Chromium unless I configure some other program to open it. This ...
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How do I unset my default xdg browser?
I want to debug a program's behaviour when the user has no default web browser set, but I'm not sure how I'd return to this state after setting one. I know that I can set my default browser via xdg-...
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How to avoid clutter in file system (especially $HOME)
Question
How to have a file system that does not clutter itself over time?
Explanation
Pacman manages to keep tidy the system well enough when you delete some application, but only at system level (...
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Where is the relevant .desktop file?
I can open a Python source file using xdg-open, e.g.,
$ xdg-open Documents/tmp/paramk.py
Waiting for Emacs...
$
what happens is that emacsclient is invoked and xdg-open returns when I close the Emacs'...
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Setting DISPLAY=:0 and XAUTHORITY=/home/pi/.Xauthority causes FFmpeg to run poorly
I've setup a webcam viewer that detects when a USB webcam is plugged in with a udev rule, then starts a systemd service that executes a script that starts an FFmpeg/FFplay webcam stream. I noticed ...
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Find a file in XDG directories
Today I was looking for all the mimeapps.list files in my system. Essentially one should test the following files:
$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/mimeapps.list
$XDG_CONFIG_DIRS/mimeapps.list
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/...
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Why xdg-open can't load lib from LD_PRELOAD from .desktop?
I has /usr/share/applications/wfica.desktop, which contains:
Exec=env LD_PRELOAD="/lib64/libcrypto.so.1.0.2o" /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/wfica -icaroot /opt/Citrix/ICAClient %f
When I run that ...
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Make Nautilus recognize other trash folders
I have some Trash folder that follows XDG-Trash specification, i.e. each trashed item has corresponding .trashinfo file.
I want that Nautilus should recognize coustom Trash folders and show it similar ...
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Is it possible to use unicode character within glob pattern in mime definition file?
I'm issuing the command xdg-mime install nv-custom.xml - using this file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mime-info xmlns="http://www.freedesktop.org/...
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How to set MIME priority for applications?
Image types (e.g. image/jpeg, image/png etc.) are widely supported by ImageMagick and Eye of GNOME, so the only way I see to set priority for EOG is to check it's supported formats in .desktop and ...
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Debian Buster XFCE: make PCManFM default, including for Open a Directory, as in Chromium - downloads - show in folder
Using Debian Buster XFCE. XFCE is married to Thunar, so cannot remove thunar.
I would prefer Chromium (or any other app that might choose to open a directory), as when viewing Downloads and clicking '...
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Assign an icon to a custom mimetype
I tried to create a custom mimetype (text/graphml+xml) by creating the file ~/.local/share/mime/packages/graphml+xml-mime.xml with this content:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<mime-...
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Links try and fail to open in firefox, then open in chromium after killall firefox
Whenever I click a link in some GUI applications, such as signal or slack, either nothing happens, or I just see the screen flash (the screen also flashes when I start firefox normally). This happens ...
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Cannot make xdg-mime query return chosen browser
After maybe one year of using Chromium as the default browser, my Linux switched spontaneously to using Firefox (probably because of some updates). I want to switch back. Based on this answer, I ...
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How to disable /etc/xdg/{something}?
Take /etc/xdg/kwinrulesrc for example:
$ cat /etc/xdg/kwinrulesrc
[1]
Description=dde-dock
desktop=-1
desktoprule=2
wmclass=dde-dock dde-dock
wmclasscomplete=true
wmclassmatch=1
[2]
Description=dde-...
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What is the procedure to update mime type associations in KDE?
I would like to revert to the default mime definitions at the system level, and also rebuild my local mime database. I am running Arch Linux KDE.
The Arch Wiki says,
If you use a desktop ...
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In XDG Base Directory Specification what if $HOME is unset or empty
Personally I'd like to adhere to to XDG Base Directory Specification to make my utility more portable.
However when doing so it requires me to re-implement for systems that do not have the XDG_ ...
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How do I get XDG_CONFIG_HOME from a shell script / command line?
Is ${XDG_CONFIG_HOME:-${HOME}/.config} enough or there are more tricks to it?
Is there maybe some xdg-user-dir CONFIG or xdg-settings invocation that gives me where to expect programs' configs?
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Why are the XDG variables for my account undefined when I login through SSH?
When logged in to the desktop:
$ env | grep XDG_
XDG_CONFIG_DIRS=/etc/xdg
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session4
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=xfce-
XDG_SEAT=seat0
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=xfce
...
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MIME type text/html: how & where defined?
I've asked a related question on AskUbuntu (How to open *.htm differently than *.html?) with no interest yet, so I'm addressing the same issue with a more fundamental question.
I cannot find how and ...
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Create a custom URL Protocol Handler
I would like to register a URL scheme (or protocol) handler for my own custom URL protocol, so that clicking on a link with this custom protocol will execute a command on that URL. Which steps do I ...
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Understanding AutostartCondition key in .desktop files
CentOS 7.x with GNOME 3 Shell by default provides the following *.desktop files under /etc/xdg/autostart/ with AutostartCondition key:
# gnome-welcome-tour.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
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Where should I store my application files (data, cache, logs, crashes, etc.) [closed]
Although I did some research on this subject, I couldn't reach the exact information I wanted. Actually, not exactly disclosed, everyone approached in a different way.
For the: Filesystem Hierarchy ...
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Launch default terminal emulator by command
How do I launch the default terminal emulator by command? x-terminal-emulator won't work because I'm not using a Debian and xdg-terminal doesn't seem to exist either. Is there any other way to launch ...
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How to create / delete $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR at login / logoff
Today I was surprised to ssh into my box running Arch Linux and find that /run/user/$(id -u) didn't exist.
The XDG Base Directory Specification says:
$XDG_RUNTIME_DIR defines the base directory ...
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What's the right way to add directories to XDG_DATA_DIRS?
I've installed some app under /opt/myapp, which has a /opt/myapp/share directory. As I finish installing, it tells me:
Note that '/opt/myapp/share' is not in the search path
set by the XDG_DATA_HOME ...
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Change icons directory to a xdg base directory
How can I change the icons directory from ~/.icons to $XDG_DATA_HOME/icons/?
I set $XDG_DATA_HOME to ~/.data/, but it didn't work (it seems that the icon configuration is not compliant to XDG Base ...
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Can I use ~/.config/ instead of ~/ for arbitrary packages?
I read very little about xdg, probably just enough to be dangerous. From what I've seen online, it looks like the new cool thing is to put specification files for X in ~/.config/ instead of just ~/ ...
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How to make flatpak applications use standard locations for user data files?
Applications installed with Flatpak are keeping user data and configuration under ~/.var/app/ (see Wiki and documentation).
I would like the applications installed with Flatpak to reuse the ...
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Is there a standard XDG location for user secrets?
XDG defines ~/.config, ~/.cache and other shell-agnostic locations for user configuration files. Some applications define their own locations for user secrets, like ~/.ssh and ~/.gpg.
Is there an XDG-...
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Which program runs $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/autostart in Debian 9?
Which program runs $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/autostart in Debian 9?
I tried putting the following .desktop file in $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/autostart:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=test
Comment=test
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Cannot set default application for xdg-open
I am trying to make gthumb the default when opening png files from the terminal
$ xdg-mime default ~/.gnome/apps/gthumb.desktop image/png
I created this symlink:
$ ls -l ~/.gnome/apps/gthumb....
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xdg-open on debian 9 fails to open browser
I decided to try lxdm (was using fluxbox and xfce), and discovered that for many programs the url handler was failing, producing this error message;
Quite strange as you can see, it's prepending the ...
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Switching user with gdmflexiserver from i3
Apparently, when using gdm3 (the default of Ubuntu 18.04) we should be able to run gdmflexiserver to get a new greeter and log in with resp. switch to another user.
When running the command in my i3 ...
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Is there a home directory location for overriding icons?
There are a few home directory locations that complement /usr locations. Files in these locations override their /usr counterparts. For example:
~/.local/bin complements /usr/bin
~/.local/share/...
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Why does xdg-open use Mendeley as default for PDFs?
Similar to this question, I have some applications (Calibre, texdoc) open PDFs with Mendeley. Opening PDFs from Thunar, Thunderbird, Firefox etc. opens evince, the expected default.
It seems that ...
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how can i change default xdg-viewer on chromium
I want to change my external default viewer not to be xdg, i need it too be VNC... I tried on chrome/settings but found nothing. im using ubuntu 14.04(ZorinOS
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What is the command line equivalent of xdg Terminal=true?
When I create an xdg-desktop file with Terminal=true, this has the effect of:
launching a new terminal window
running the command in that terminal (from Exec=command)
What is the equivalent CLI ...
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What is the user equivalent of the global /opt directory?
I'm wondering if anybody has agreed on a user equivalent of the global /opt directory, for third-party packages that are distributed as a tarball to be unpacked as a single directory. Examples include ...
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Open a directory in the default file manager and select a file
In a program which I am writing I want to offer the functionality to open the directory where the file which I am currently processing is located and automatically select that file (so that the user ...
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Set default program for MIME type: image/*
Is there really no way to set the default program for all MIME sub-types of a top-level type? E.g., image/*.
I am talking about the XDG MIME spec, and not the older mailcap scheme. And I'm not asking ...
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recreate xdg directories after accidentally deleting it
im running xdg-user-dirs-update command, which create two files in .config directory, user-dirs.dirs and user-dirs.locale. user-dirs.dirs lookes like this:
# This file is written by xdg-user-dirs-...
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How to use SELinux to reject applications' modifications to home directory?
I have grown to be annoyed by applications ignoring the XDG base directory specification.
What's the best way to deny applications any changes to the home directory except in the specified ...
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Which distributions have $HOME/.local/bin in $PATH?
Example: in Ubuntu, there is always a .local directory in the home directory and .profile includes this line:
PATH="$HOME/bin:$HOME/.local/bin:$PATH"
$HOME/.local/bin does not exist by default, but ...
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Is there a standard way for getting the media mount path (like /media/user, /run/media/user…)?
In an application, I need to find out where removable media is mounted. On Ubuntu, this happens in /media/username/ . On Arch, it is /run/media/username/ . On other systems, its just /media/ etc.
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