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Help browser defaults to wrong program. john Culleton 14 Nov 15:06
  Help browser defaults to wrong program. Jehan Pagès 15 Nov 05:52
john Culleton
2013-11-14 15:06:01 UTC (over 10 years ago)

Help browser defaults to wrong program.

When I seek to access the help manual online instead of any of my web browsers I get Quanta, which these days is an IDE for web or other development. Only Gimp makes this mistake. Inkscape does not. I don't care if I get Firefox or Seamonkey or Konqueror. I just want to get a real web browser.

Slackware 14.0 which comes with a recent version of Gimp (2.8.2)

John Culleton
Wexford Press
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Jehan Pagès
2013-11-15 05:52:34 UTC (over 10 years ago)

Help browser defaults to wrong program.

Hi,

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 4:06 AM, john Culleton wrote:

When I seek to access the help manual online instead of any of my web browsers I get Quanta, which these days is an IDE for web or other development. Only Gimp makes this mistake. Inkscape does not. I don't care if I get Firefox or Seamonkey or Konqueror. I just want to get a real web browser.

I have not tested in details myself, but with a fast quick code check, it looks like GIMP would use the standard method (through glib) to get the user-defined browser.
Could you tell me what is the result to these 3 commands:

$ xdg-mime query default text/html $ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http $ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https

It should be the desktop file for the desired application (for instance "firefox.desktop" if you want Firefox). If it isn't, please set it with the following commands:

$ xdg-mime default firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/http $ xdg-mime default firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/https $ xdg-mime default firefox.desktop text/html

If you already had the right settings, but the expected browser is still not the one to be loaded, then there is probably indeed a problem in GIMP code.
I will wait for the verification. :-) Thank you very much.

Jehan

Slackware 14.0 which comes with a recent version of Gimp (2.8.2)

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