Filipe, I have applied your patch to the current package in vivid. Some testing is needed, so that we can hopefully backport it to trusty (and maybe utopic).
https://launchpad.net/~thad-fisch/+archive/ubuntu/test -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to xdg-utils in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1388922 Title: xdg-open doesn't properly detect XFCE DE Status in Xdg-utils: Fix Released Status in xdg-utils package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: xdg-open doesn't detect the XFCE desktop environment on its fresh install on Ubuntu (not Xubuntu). I was able to fix that by adding 'elif [ x"$DESKTOP_SESSION" = x"xubuntu" ]; then DE=xfce;' line in 'detectDE()' function. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/xdg-utils/+bug/1388922/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp