Please don't reply to me, please reply only to the list.

On Sat, 2022-03-12 at 11:37 -0800, Van Snyder wrote:
> On Sat, 2022-03-12 at 19:08 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > Evolution (or the others) don't actually do it themselves. They
> > > > use
> > > > xdg-open which opens whatever in the users preferred
> > > > application.
> > > > So
> > > > something like 
> > > > 
> > > >   xdg-open http://www.gnome.org
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the explanation. That works from my command line, but
> > > doesn't work in kalarm.
> > > 
> > If it works from the command line, then it really should work
> > anywhere.
> > Is the command in kalarm executed as your own username?
> 
> According to "ps -ef | grep xdg" it is. There are several "xdg"
> programs running:
> 
> /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal
> /usr/libexec/xdg-document-portal
> /usr/libexec/xdg-permission-store
> /usr/libexec/xdg-desktop-portal-gtk
> /usr/bin/xdg-dbus-proxy
> 
> There are also instances of the last one being run by /usr/bin/bwrap
> 
> The parent process of the instance of firefox started by kalarm is
> systemd.
> 

OK, but I asked if the process that is started by kalarm is owned by
you.  

But if kalarm uses the systemd timers, then it won't be executed as
part of your desktop environment so it probably can't know that you
already have an instance of firefox running. 

P.

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