Resolved: update-alternatives failure to set/config x-www-browser

[Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com>]

On 09/05/2016 08:39 AM, Christian Seiler wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am 5. September 2016 14:31:45 MESZ, schrieb Tony Baldwin <tonybaldwin@gmx.com>:
> > I have done
> > sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser about 50 times in this
> > past week, and chosen chromium-browser as my goto/default, but links
> >from icedove keep opening in iceweasel, no matter what.
> > ???
> Most GUI applications don't use x-www-browser (which is what update-alternatives controls) but either the xdg mime association system or mailcap. For icedove it's the former.
>
> In your case, running
>
> xdg-mime default chromium.desktop x-scheme-handler/http
> x-scheme-handler/https text/html
>
> as a the user for which this should be set should do the trick.
This did, indeed, do the trick!
Thanks!
./tony

> Regards,
> Christian


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