I have a problem when some shell command is trying to launch my browser. Example below with browse command, but same with jupyter notebook. It looks like the target is opened in VSCode instead.
I’m running Ubuntu 20.04, with zsh, in a pyenv virtual environment.
Thanks!
~ browse askubuntu.com
command= "code" args= ("code", "http://askubuntu.com")
~ Copying QUrl("http://askubuntu.com/") to QUrl("file:///home/username/.cache/kioexec/krun/8292_0/unnamed")
Telling kioexecd to watch path "/home/username/.cache/kioexec/krun/8292_0/unnamed" dest "http://askubuntu.com/"
All files downloaded, will call slotRunApp shortly
EXEC "/snap/bin/code /home/username/.cache/kioexec/krun/8292_0/unnamed"
EXEC done
… then VSCode opens the target as a html file.
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EDIT: Same error when I run
xdg-open 'http://askubuntu.com' -
EDIT:
xdg-settings get default-web-browseryieldscode-2.desktop -
EDIT: if I do
xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox.desktop, no error raised but it doesn’t actually change the value (stays ascode-2.desktop) -
EDIT:
$BROWSER askubuntu.comworks perfectly fine -
SOLVED: Thanks to @Koen I went to System settings/Applications/Default Applications (I’m on KDE) –> Web Browser –> Open http and https URLs "in the following application: Firefox" instead of "in an application based on the contents of the URL"
>Solution :
xdg-settings fails silently – an echo $? can show you that return code is not 0 when it failed
return codes:
1 Error in command line syntax.
2 One of the files passed on the command line did not exist.
3 A required tool could not be found.
4 The action failed.
browse is a link to xdg-open – so you need to supply an url to open the default browser
the default browser can also be set via gui tools
- gnome: gnome-control-center – default applications – web
- KDE: System settings/Applications/Default Applications –> Web Browser –> Open http and https URLs "in the following application: Firefox"