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Xdg-open is part of the xdg-utils package. When invoked from the command-line it can open any file in the default application or an url in the default browser.

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Force Firefox to use xdg-open to open downloaded files

Firefox in Kubuntu is broken, as it doesn't follow the system default applications that I can configure using "file associations" in the KDE Control Module. For example, it wants to open ...
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xdg-document is keeping my files open

I use Master PDf editor installed through flathub to edit some PDf files. When I close it, I can sse by lsof | grep /media/<MYUSER>/<DEVICE> that xdg-document is keeping my file open. What ...
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Launch Webapps in custom browser

I'm using Google Chrome as default web-browser because i need Flash ang i've installed Firefox back to use with Webapps, because Chromium, that i tried to use before, launched through script, taking ...
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mimetype not identifying pdf files: mime hell

I have never had issues with opening pdf files until recently. Then, I wanted to readup on the xcolor package for TeX and entered the following command: texdoc xcolor This has always worked, opening ...
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Xdg-open doesn't work in Chromium

I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and I've got chromium-browser through apt(same problem persists with snap version). The problem is that xdg-open doesn't seem to do anything when called ...
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Why does Synapse use Nautilus for all file types instead of the default application?

No matter which file I find via Synapse, it just gets opened in Nautilus. May that be because I recently put Nautilus as my default file manager? Can I change that behavior to the normal action, i.e....
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Why does xdg-open use wslview?

Using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, KDE Plasma 5, with wine 7.8 installed. When I try to use the command xdg-open . the expected mime type (for inode/directory is Dolphin) is not invoked. Instead wslview is ...
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snap: xdg-open does nohing

I am running Ubuntu 20.04. I installed only ubuntu-standard without GUI and then added awesome window manager without gdm. I use only startx. Recently, I started using spapd. For instance, I have ...
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Slow Image Opening with xdg-open/ eog in Folder of many Files

I am using Ubuntu 20.04 and I have a folder with many .png and .json files (+100k in total, no sub-folder within the folder). When I tried to open one of its .png images with xdg-open abc.png or eog ...
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Severe lag when opening "Files", xdg-open: "timeout was reached"

After a recent update "Files" either times out, or takes a significantly long time to open a file manager window. When attempting to open window via 'xdg-open .', I encounter "gio: file:...
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Purge default-web-browser from xdg-settings

Is it possible to purge default-web-browser entry from xdg-settings for specific user? I.e. that if xdg-open with an url is called an error will be thrown instead of opening the url in the default ...
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GitKraken Snap - Sign in with Github button not working

I installed the latest GitKraken snap (4.1.1) from Ubuntu Software on a fresh Ubuntu 18.04.01. When I run it and try to sign in with Github nothing happens, after some seconds a message appears in the ...
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Spotify xdg-open fails, while doing the same open directly works

When I execute spotify spotify:track:7u9Vkw4xWtGNjao5uz3fJV, I can freely listen to the linked track. But doing xdg-open spotify:track:7u9Vkw4xWtGNjao5uz3fJV, I get "Link not found" error in Spotify....
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xdg-open: chrome/chromium/opera

I have written an application that makes use of the pocket API. Currently the login is done inside a custom webframe of the application itself. But I want to use the default browser for this. ...
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xdg-email can't find thunderbird

Clicking a mailto link in chromium-browser it executes xdg-email mailto:[email protected] (or maybe without "mailto:", which seems to be the same thing). In my case this opens kmail instead of ...
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Ubuntu 22.04: xdg-open opening Text Editor instead of browser when called from C++ program

I'm a currently running on Ubuntu 22.04 and calling the following xdg-open system call from a C++ program: QString cmd = "xdg-open /home/user/foo.html &"; int ret = system(cmd....
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xdg-open not working via ssh terminal session

I have performed file association for my custom extension(.vwxy), I have created the mime specification file and the desktop entry file for that. I m able to launch my application via xdg-open <...
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cannot identify xdg-open behaviour for console application

I have created file association for a console application which accepts inputs from stdin and gives output at the stdout. It works normally when I run the application from the terminal using ./myExe. ...
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Permissions makes libreoffice go in a crash-loop when opening from terminal

I am having some permission issues with libreoffice that I just don't have the technical provess to understand. ISSUE when I run localc directly from terminal, it goes into a loop: the program crashes ...
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Can xdg-open open a different browser for specific URLs?

I'd like xdg-open to use a non-default browser when I click a work related link. Maybe I could configure xdg-open to call a script when opening URLs. The script could open a different browser based on ...
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16.04 problem uploading with Chrome, Ixdg-open open? doesn´t work

My Ubuntu 16.04 system can't upload from Chrome. It says: Please click Open xdg-open if you see the system dialog. If nothing prompts from browser, click here to launch the meeting, or download &...
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Is there a way to open a page in the browser in the background, UNFOCUSED, from the command line?

For those familiar with OSX, the behavior I'm looking for is open -g http://google.com, which will open a google webpage in the default browser in the background, without switching focus to it at all. ...
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Open Microsoft Edge in Ubuntu

I run Ubuntu on my Windows laptop, and I only use the Microsoft Edge browser. I tried to used the 'xdg-open' to open the desire website, but Microsoft Edge is not listed in the supported browser. Can ...
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Prevent xdg-open to open mistyped files as URLs

I am often inadvertently trying to open incomplete filenames with xdg-open, because of the presence of several files with the same basename but different extensions, e.g. very-long-filename.tex, very-...
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Discord app won't open through Brave browser. xdg-open

Whenever I want to join a new server I receive the pop-up for Open-xdg-open but this does nothing. This is only happening in Brave browser for Discord specifically, other apps and browsers are working ...
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Snap browsers don't open pdf

I use chromium and firefox on kinetic, both don't open PDFs with system handler properly. If chromium is allowed to show PDFs, then firefox opens PDFs i a chromium window. If chromium is not allowed ...
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How to start xdg-open shortcut within conda environment (Using app installed with conda as xdg-open app)

I installed QGIS using conda. If I start qgis from the terminal it works well as it has everything it needs to use in the PATH as defined by the conda base environment. However I cannot pin that app ...
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chromium+xdg-open Wireshark from an URL scheme handler: Couldn't run /usr/bin/dumpcap in child process: Permission denied

I need to start the local Wireshark from the web user interface of a web service to immediately start a capture session, using some external capture plugin to connect to the web service. When using ...
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xdg-open commands inheriting user directory

I've been having a fairly longstanding problem that is now preventing me from installing google-drive-ocamlfuse. When any CLI tries to run xdg-open URL it is not able to open the link in a webbrowser....
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xdg-open command in terminal

when i use xdg-open with http it works fine But when i try opening it with https it says this Secure Connection Failed An error occurred during a connection to 10.0.2.15:22533. SSL received a ...
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Can I meddle with xdg-setting to open a popup asking me with which browser to open a link I just clicked?

I work on multiple browsers simultaneously. I wish that every time I open a link from outside a browser( let's say from a pfd) a window or a terminal pops up to ask me which browser to use. Is there ...
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Open streaming video in Chrome

I am trying to stream baseball from the First Row Sports website running Chrome in Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. The URL is http://firstrowca.eu/watch/15570/1/watch-mlb-network.html. I followed a tutorial for ...
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Chrome is not opening magnet links properly with deluge?

If I use firefox, and click a magnet link, everything runs smoothly. however, in google chrome, all I get is that the deluge icon shakes as if it is opening something, but when I look at the window I ...
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