Questions tagged [xdg-open]
xdg-open is a tool from the FreeDesktop project. xdg-open accepts both filenames and URLs as arguments; when invoked, it will open the given argument in the user's preferred application for handling that file type or URL. xdg-open is desktop-independent.
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How to open a file starting with dash via xdg-open
Usually, a double dash separates options from filenames, but xdg-open does not care:
❯ xdg-open -headlinesAfter.epub
xdg-open: unexpected option '-headlinesAfter.epub'
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Design .desktop File to Launch the Default Terminal Emulator with Arguments
I'd like to be able to open text and source code files in neovim (or any other terminal-based text editor) when an XDG-compatible GUI application asks with which application to open that file. For now,...
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Open file from terminal in already running "pure data" instance
Whenever I xdg-open patch.pd it will open a new pure data instance, how can I make it open with existing instance?
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`xdg-open /` opens in browser when not already in terminal
I have set default file manager to ranger (xdg-mime query default inode/directory = ranger.desktop). Yet, when I am not in the terminal already, xdg-open / opens in the browser.
I have checked in /usr/...
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Controll the application that opens the links
My scenario is simple - I have two browser profiles, personal and work. Now I have two sources I get urls.
My goal is to have a way to open urls from one source (let's say Slack) with personal profile ...
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Browser download location file manager is not using system default file manager
As a bit of background, I'm using Arch Linux with i3 as my window manager and I recently stopped using Nautilus as my default file manager and started using Thunar. The browser I'm using is Brave and ...
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How to run application/x-executable in nnn file manager?
I'm trying to open executable files in nnn. In my case the executable is the Telegram.
When I try to open it using nnn the firefox will open. I searched over the net and figure out I should set a ...
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google-chrome-stable not respecting xdg-open
I have a file downloaded using google-chrome-stable in ~/Downloads/video.mkv, but clicking the file in Chrome's downloads page somehow opens the file in Firefox instead of my default video player.
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Launching xdg-open from dmenu
$ xdg-mime query default `xdg-mime query filetype t.txt`
nvim.desktop
and xdg-open t.txt works as expected. However, typing dmenu_run in terminal then xdg-open ~/t.txt results in infinite loop:
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On running xdg-settings get default-we-browser, I get the following message "unknown desktop environment"
I am running an R script that tries to open a link on the linux server.
But on running the script, I get the following error
xdg-open: no method available for opening 'https://unix.stackexchange.com/'
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Can't change default web browser in linux mint
I recently installed Linux mint 21.1 Xfce 4.16.0. I'd like my default web browser to be google chrome. dg-settings get default-web-browser shows google-chome.desktop as my default browser. ...
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How to pass URL string in .desktop file in quotes
I installed WhatsApp Desktop via Wine and I am trying to associate whatsapp:// links with it.
Executing the following via command line works and starts a chat with the phone number +1234567890:
env ...
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Escape spaces in path in export variable (Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS)
I use WSL2 (Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS) and need to refer to edge-browser for xdg-open. Due to the space in the path I get an error. How can I escape the space? The path is shown corrrectly in exported ...
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xdg-open opening wrong application
I do not know where to ask this.
When I type help, I get "help: Help is being displayed in xdg-open."
Which is normal I suppose, but the problem is it opens up in Todoist application, which ...
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default-url-scheme-handler not implemented for xfce
I run this code on kali linux:
xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler https google-chrome.desktop
I got this error:
xdg-settings: default-url-scheme-handler not implemented for xfce
how can I ...
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How Can I Open Multiple Files With xdg-open
Let's say I run xdg-open file.flac. It will be equivalent to mpv file.flac. But if I run xdg-open *.flac, it will give me an error because it thinks that the other files are "unexpected arguments&...
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Xdg-Mime won't change default application for .xopp (Xournalpp) files
I'm trying to change the default application for the filetype .xopp, which is a file for the xournalpp application. I currently ran the following commands:
xdg-mime query filetype 2022-06-09/note.xopp
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URL ampersand escape xdg-open command
I am trying to open a URL using the xdg-open command, but I have tried escaping the ampersand character to no avail; all possible choices don't work in bash.
I have tried the following
xdg-open "...
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protonvpn RuntimeError: Couldn't find acceptable executables for {'xdg-open'}
EDIT #3:
After a series of attempts at removing packages, and installing again with/without the virtualenv, I came across various hurdles, which required me doing (with the help of ref, ref)
$ conda ...
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Arch Linux: Is it possible to configure chromium to be my default browser for only a single website?
xdg-settings get default-web-browser produces firefox.desktop. This is what I want in almost every case. For a single website I want links to open in chromium.
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How to reveal a file in file explorer
Is there any solution as cross-platform as xdg-open is for revealing a file in the user's file explorer?
xdg-open /path/to/file
unfortunately opens the file, but all I want to do is open the file ...
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Custom URI handling: xdg-open and Firefox work, but Chrome doesn't
I'm trying to configure my Linux environment to open obsidian:// URIs using the Obsidian app (see Using Obsidian URI).
This is the flow I'm using. I'm doing this on a clean Ubuntu machine to make sure ...
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xdg-open from .desktop file (in script)
I am trying to get a shell script to launch a browser. When run standalone, this script successfully opens a browser with
xdg-open http://localhost:8080
However, I am trying to make it convenient ...
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Windows browser specific to program within WSL
I'm in a Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) Ubuntu 20.04 LTS.
My ~/.zshrc file currently has the following appended to the end of the file.
export BROWSER='/mnt/c/Program Files/BraveSoftware/Brave-...
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Open default application for file and wait until it terminates
I tried to use xdg-open but it does not wait until the application terminates.
I also tried to get the MIME-type of the file with xdg-mime query filetype fileHere and using xdg-mime query default MIME-...
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Skip the browser page when opening https URIs for Zoom, Teams, and other native apps
Android has a convenient feature: certain https links that have associated local apps installed are opened directly in these apps, skipping the browser page. How do I achieve this in Linux?
I have ...
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Ranger: set default apps for files
I use arch linux, ranger and nvim. When I try to open any text file, ranger does not do anything and this is on output:
/bin/sh: line 1: vim: command not found
What can i do to open file in neovim ?
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.local/share/applications isn't detected by xdg-mime
I'm trying to change the default program to open PDF files with xdg-open using the command xdg-mime default pdf.desktop application/pdf.
The file pdf.desktop is already in ~/.local/share/applications.
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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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Cannot open multiple instances of Firefox with xdg-open or kde-open5 in OpenSUSE due to "Firefox is already running" error
When I try from the command line
$ kde-open5 http://unix.stackexchange.com/
$ xdg-open http://unix.stackexchange.com/
... I get after a few seconds a dialog box on X11 telling me that Firefox is ...
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Launching a program via `xdg-open` from a subshell without blocking
I've noticed that calling xdg-open from a subshell will reliably block until the launched process is closed. I suspect there may be a reason for this, but I'm not sure as to why. For example, ...
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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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Setting default browser for zathura
So I have trouble setting the default browser for opening links in zathura.
I would like to use chrome however Palemoon is always used instead.
I am on Manjaro with i3.
First of all xdg-open "...
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How to xdg-open specific links with different apps
Hi I want to open specific link with specific application. To be more specific, I want to open zoom links https://us02web.zoom.us/j/something?pwd=somethingsomething with desktop-ish zoom application (...
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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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xdg-open is only using gedit
Something went wrong on a whole bunch of machines, and I can't figure out what or where or when or how.
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation release 6.10 (Santiago)
All of my desktop icons are not ...
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How to register new mimetypes not available in xfce4-mime-settings so that they are recognized with xdg-open under XFCE4?
I am trying to register new mimetypes under XFCE4. In particular, I would like to register the protocol zoommtg so I can launch Zoom meetings from links in the webbrowser Chrome. Chrome will launch ...
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Is it possible to tell xdg-open (or alikes) to open a window in the background?
I am using xdg-open with cronjobs to open our time-management web-app once per hour to log my time (among other repeating things). This works very well, but has an annoying usability problem. Once ...
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chromium: specify file association, instead of opening file in xdg-open
When I click on a file in chromium, it calls xdg-open to open the file based on its mime type.
For example, if I click on a file with a .torrent extension, it opens it in my torrent client.
Is it ...
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xdg-open autocomplete not working when calling it with alias
I've set an alias to xdg-open adding alias op="xdg-open" to my ~/.bashrc file.
The command op file.pdf works, but I'm not able to autocomplete when typing, for example, op fi and hitting TAB....
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Where does xdg-mime save its per-user default app settings?
Where does xdg-mime save the settings I make with commands which set the default app to handle MIME types? i.e. commands such as:
xdg-mime default evince.desktop application/pdf
?
I'm using SLES (...
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Opening a URL with xdg-open using Mozilla Remote Protocol
Older versions of Netscape and Mozilla (for X11) supported the so-called remote protocol: it was possible to open a URL or start composing an e-mail whenever a Netscape/Mozilla window (not necessarily ...
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Mirror image video using xdg-open
I am using a web cam in Zoom, which opens xdg-open to provide the video feed.
Unfortunately the feed is mirror image, so if I have text in the image then it is reversed and unreadable.
How can I ...
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Wait for forking process to complete
I have an application which does this:
#!/bin/bash
tmpfile=$(mktemp)
gedit $tmpfile && pkexec mv $tmpfile $1
Works great. It creates a temp file, opens it in a graphical editor, and it gets ...
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`serverless login` return Error: spawn /home/imin/.serverless/bin/xdg-open ENOENT
As a linux newbie, I tried installing lubuntu-18.04.4-desktop-amd64 in my VMware to do my development work there. Installation is a breeze, now I'm trying to install Serverless as per the guide here ...
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Unable to open URL with xdg-open
Getting this error as regular user:
~$ xdg-open http://www.google.com/
xdg-open: no method available for opening 'http://www.google.com/'
~$
~$ xdg-mime query default text/html
~$
Code from /usr/bin/...
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Exceptions with xdg-open when starting programs in the background
Until now I've been using the alias to xdg-open.
alias o='xdg-open $@ 2> /dev/null'
The default behaviour for xdg-open is to start the process in the foreground of the currently selected terminal ...
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How to associate a new (custom) mime type with files (based on file extension)?
This is part 2 of How to install a new (custom) mime type on my Linux system using CLI tools?
Using the steps in the accepted answer at the above question, I created the following mime-type mx-...
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xdg-open fails to open file [closed]
I was trying to open an Excel file with python on Linux using xdg-open but realized xdg-open doesn't really work on my machine:
$ xdg-open ~/Documents/foo.xlsx
/usr/bin/xdg-open: line 881: www-...
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Configure xfce to use an alternative to the xdg-open program
I wonder how I would change the default file open application in xfce. In the terminal I always use rifle (from the terminal file manager ranger) and I would like to use rifle as well for when I open ...
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