Package: xdg-utils Version: 1.1.3-4.1 Severity: normal File: /usr/bin/xdg-open
Hi, sorry for making this lengthy, but this is first-hand user experience. If TL;DR is wanted, please scroll down to the summary section. This issue has bothered me for a while and I had to report it eventually. I have a mixed system here, not just one single DE. And xdg-open is apparently used in many applications. And the behavior on folders puzzled me: - xdg-open . --> opens VS Code - xdg-open /tmp --> opens QDirStat And the manual of xdg-open does not give me any clue on how to investigate or modify it. Which UI tool can I use? Which CLI tool may I use? The first idea was to use xdg-settings. That tool does NOT HELP ME AT ALL. I can get and check and set something, but WHAT? There is no "list" sub-command in that utility. Okay, so I had to check the internet. Found out about MimeType and found code.desktop and qdirstat.desktop, and found the mime types inode/directory and inode/mountpoint . So I had to read further to create $HOME/.local/share/applications/thunar.desktop which is based on the packaged version, and I added this into it: $ grep Mime $HOME/.local/share/applications/thunar.desktop MimeType=inode/directory;inode/mountpoint; Expected result: - the change should be picked up - the preferred version in user's home should be used Actual result: $ xdg-open /var/tmp [main 2024-04-04T10:41:10.001Z] update#setState idle [main 2024-04-04T10:41:11.720Z] Extension host with pid 1431582 exited with code: 0, signal: unknown. [main 2024-04-04T10:41:11.728Z] [UtilityProcess id: 1, type: fileWatcher, pid: 1431552]: crashed with code 15 and reason 'killed' And it still opens it with code, not thunar. And what is this fileWatcher being killed? So, assuming that it might use a user service for all operations, I have applied "systemctl --user restart xdg..." on all services. Result: no luck, nothing has changed. So eventually I hat do dig further, after finding out that those are just shell scripts, which brings us to "xdg-mime query default inode/directory" returning code.desktop. And only after bash-x-ing this I have learned about the existence of defaults.list file. And I still had no idea how to create or modify it. So I had to use SO again and found https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/36380/how-to-properly-and-easily-configure-xdg-open-without-any-environment#59088 And only after creating the file with the following I get to my actual target. [Default Applications] inode/directory=thunar.desktop inode/mountpoint=thunar.desktop So, my summary, what would I expect: - the manpages shall document the related configuration files, at least briefly - default.list should have a manpage (no user should be forced to use web sources for such basic knowledge) - the MimeType of the user's desktop files probably should be considered first, and the system versions later - there should be some kind of verbosity switch, which would print relevant information along the decision making, without having to dig through all the shell debug log. Best regards, Eduard. -- Package-specific info: Desktop environment: XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP= -- System Information: Debian Release: trixie/sid APT prefers unstable-debug APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'oldoldstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 Kernel: Linux 6.8.2 (SMP w/16 CPU threads; PREEMPT) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.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 xdg-utils depends on no packages. Versions of packages xdg-utils recommends: ii libfile-mimeinfo-perl 0.34-1 ii libnet-dbus-perl 1.2.0-2+b2 ii libx11-protocol-perl 0.56-9 ii x11-utils 7.7+6+b1 ii x11-xserver-utils 7.7+10+b1 xdg-utils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- <Zomb> Noch freiwillige Tester für svn-inject und svn-uupdate hier? <Greek0> Wenn du mir erklärst, was das is ;) <Zomb> Greek0: Dope für Maintainer, echt guter Stoff.
