When I click on a apt:// link in Chromium Ubuntu Software Center handles the link. How can I change it to gdebi/apturl?
1 Answer
Gdebi doesn't have functionality of opening apt: links, however apturl does.There is a way to set default application for x-scheme-handler links with xdg-mime
command.
First make sure apturl is installed on your system,
sudo apt-get install apturl
Latest version of chromium already uses xdg-open for any x-scheme-handler links.To configure xdg-open with apturl , go through following steps:
Make sure they are all set correctly:
- Hit Alt+F2
- Enter
gconf-editor
- Navigate to the
/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/apt/command
, it should be set toapturl "%s"
.
Now set apturl default for any apt links:
xdg-mime default apturl.desktop x-scheme-handler/apt
It will set apturl as default application for apt links.You can check it by running xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/apt
in the terminal(output would be apturl.desktop
)
Now whenever you click apt in chromium, it will use apturl.
DONE!!
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I mean change gconf values programmatically from the shell. Then I can script the change so I don't have to change this by hand using gconf-editor every time I install Ubuntu on a new computer. The command
dconf
can do just that. However I don't know if all the keys in gconf and dconf are named the samed way.– NordlöwFeb 5, 2014 at 20:44 -
1Since natty it does not depend on gconf-value (gconf depreciated, dconf is used now). Instead it uses
apturl.desktop
in/usr/share/application
which is there by default. open it in gedit. Make sure exec part read like this:Exec=apturl %u
. Then proceed as described above. Feb 5, 2014 at 21:01 -
1You can change dconf/gconf settings using gconftool-2 or gsettings. For example, for dconf its something like :
gsettings set com.canonical.indicator.session show-real-name-on-panel false
. askubuntu.com/questions/72070/… Feb 5, 2014 at 21:02