Package: galternatives Version: 1.0.9 Severity: normal -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512
Dear Maintainer, I'm not sure what package to file this bug under, but I picked galternatives because it's probably the most common way Debian users (and others?) want to change default applications. Note that, as far as I know, there's nothing wrong with galternatives itself: please assign this bug to whichever package you consider to be most appropriate. It all started when I installed the Vivaldi browser on my Debian testing system. It worked fine in itself, but when I clicked on a link in an email (using evolution and bluemail gave the same result), it brought up vivaldi instead of my regular browser (Firefox). I checked /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser, and it pointed to Firefox, just as I'd set it. Still, clicking on email links brought up vivaldi instead of Firefox. It's taken me quite some time to find out why this is happening. I first discovered, using 'ps auxf', that the instance of vivaldi brought up by clicking on an email link was called by '/lib/systemd/systemd --user'. So systemd was involved. The plot thickened. Today, I figured it out. Gnome. Now, I don't have Gnome installed on my Debian testing box, but I installed it on a VM, and found that gnome-control-center sets these things, *even when you don't have Gnome installed*. I installed just gnome-control-center on my Debian testing box, set it up as I wanted, and now clicking on an email link brings up Firefox, as it's supposed to. This means that, for some default applications anyway, galternatives is useless for setting them up, and, unless you have gnome-control-center installed, there's no way to set them up at all. I'm not sure what the solution is here. Perhaps galternatives could be modified to fix it, or perhaps a new application is in order. Another alternative would be to install gnome-control-center at all times, and provide instructions to use it if needed. (I don't recommend this: the thing's ugly). .....Ron Murray - -- System Information: Debian Release: 12.0 APT prefers testing-security APT policy: (500, 'testing-security'), (500, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.2.10.khufu (SMP w/8 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Kernel taint flags: TAINT_PROPRIETARY_MODULE, TAINT_OOT_MODULE Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE not set Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages galternatives depends on: ii gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 2.42.10+dfsg-1+b1 ii gir1.2-gtk-3.0 3.24.37-2 ii python3 3.11.2-1 ii python3-gi 3.42.2-3+b1 Versions of packages galternatives recommends: ii pkexec 122-3 ii python3-xdg 0.28-2 galternatives suggests no packages. - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQJCBAEBCgAsFiEETZlw4yMXM0sUHntjEvfoZbXi52EFAmQvSEkOHHJqbXhAcmpt eC5uZXQACgkQEvfoZbXi52Hm5w//VU59thhwWZgh1SoYF9+WleEsQUdacsSj+6m9 xMiHC83wiXDyXLA4TeYYD3qddIGTCr5dekgRrK4SX+ZF1a1YSdm3iw/NPXpFf8Yy ASLhSU3b7FpzJjH+vmzCbQ6asYngmSRtLYGMgcbASh+0GgFQbZh9GsvBGJp3yu5x Byrm5lUnu9gNZfGmAqSnsUhL9xJmpppvYKe3Ojknw1EXwMTKx/iCoNZDyzJ8bGO5 QsDrDPWKGK6O3tyTPEqYwaHN0PPw+1wJjGAEPhC8tAmO5dNtbLN0JDWtREiYG1Fv 9SUsmg3Jp//2bPfpqCOVrlm2obowmO8eV3R/4GL8mQDXmMMPTGRyI7nHDYn+hzLZ 89sCH32+vJ0i8if2yJP1lk938e9Yvko9gjKSnbB8Bz5aWiYtxMHbhWE5lTHJ1MrK 0IaaAbEcs4C/3bEPVyFtAVims/33+g6QgiOkQN48DJIQceLDymKFhxkR+9gcJ4OB pOWsZN8E3A/6LnCxv0WdBqHvfl+rniwRwIP2Uk8A8SUxbiP1rVhmIS/eyJ1ARF3z miAhOieNFpxwioba9EKRWknlA56qW5Aj19+yQOy7lhz3dRmHNWQH/WjH6ICBfznd bGrAQxpnN/6PenJL21b5wqyEShzKv+g/CRSP/Ws9g7VHBjCdMNu+F14R0bAsXQXj 7B0CYp8= =gwca -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
