How to set the default web browser used to open URLs under i3?

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I have tried to set my default browser for opening URLs to Chromium using:

xdg-settings set default-web-browser chromium.desktop

(yes I checked out whether /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop existed first before running this command and it does exist) and it returns:

xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment

i3 isn't a desktop environment so I can definitely understand this error, but is there a way around it? The reason I want xdg-open to open URLs using Chromium is that running notebook() from the SageMath command-line attempts to open the notebook in one's default web browser (using xdg-open). Presently this obviously fails (no browser, or application for that matter, is opened to the URL), so I'd like to get this to work which I believe will require me to get xdg-open to open URLs in Chromium.

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I have tried to set my default browser for opening URLs to Chromium using:

xdg-settings set default-web-browser chromium.desktop

(yes I checked out whether /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop existed first before running this command and it does exist) and it returns:

xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment

edited Aug 16 '17 at 2:29

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I have tried to set my default browser for opening URLs to Chromium using:

xdg-settings set default-web-browser chromium.desktop

(yes I checked out whether /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop existed first before running this command and it does exist) and it returns:

xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment

edited Aug 16 '17 at 2:29

asked Aug 16 '17 at 2:19

Brenton Horne

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I have tried to set my default browser for opening URLs to Chromium using:

xdg-settings set default-web-browser chromium.desktop

(yes I checked out whether /usr/share/applications/chromium.desktop existed first before running this command and it does exist) and it returns:

xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment

i3 xdg-open

edited Aug 16 '17 at 2:29

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Brenton Horne

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edited Aug 16 '17 at 2:29

asked Aug 16 '17 at 2:19

Brenton Horne

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Brenton Horne

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Unfortunately I don't have a solution for you, but for reference, I can tell you that

xdg-settings set default-web-browser <mybrowser>.desktop

works perfectly well for me, as of today, using i3 and arch. I would look elsewhere for the solution to your problem.

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Unfortunately I don't have a solution for you, but for reference, I can tell you that

xdg-settings set default-web-browser <mybrowser>.desktop

works perfectly well for me, as of today, using i3 and arch. I would look elsewhere for the solution to your problem.

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Unfortunately I don't have a solution for you, but for reference, I can tell you that

xdg-settings set default-web-browser <mybrowser>.desktop

works perfectly well for me, as of today, using i3 and arch. I would look elsewhere for the solution to your problem.

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Unfortunately I don't have a solution for you, but for reference, I can tell you that

xdg-settings set default-web-browser <mybrowser>.desktop

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Unfortunately I don't have a solution for you, but for reference, I can tell you that

xdg-settings set default-web-browser <mybrowser>.desktop

works perfectly well for me, as of today, using i3 and arch. I would look elsewhere for the solution to your problem.

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