Re: [arch-general] Mysterious userapp .desktop files

Patrick Burroughs (Celti) wrote: > On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:08:46 -0700 > Kyle Terrien wrote: > >> So, somehow my default web browser got changed from SeaMonkey back to >> Firefox. (Bleh!) >> >> [...] >> >> In ~/.local/share/applications/ (where user-customized .desktop

Re: [arch-general] Mysterious userapp .desktop files

On Wed, 16 Mar 2016 22:08:46 -0700 Kyle Terrien wrote: > So, somehow my default web browser got changed from SeaMonkey back to > Firefox. (Bleh!) > > [...] > > In ~/.local/share/applications/ (where user-customized .desktop files > go), there were several files in the

Re: [arch-general] Mysterious userapp .desktop files

On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 12:13:47 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >archlinux-xdg-menu Isn't the culprit, but https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/xdg-menu mentions that some apps (not packages) install to desktop files to the user's home: "To add applications to the menu which install their desktop entry

Re: [arch-general] Mysterious userapp .desktop files

Indeed it's bizarre. I'm not using a DE, but just openbox with fbpanel and lxpanel, while the "systemmenu" is from fbpanel only. I also don't edit the menu using a menu editor. I don't have such entries for e.g. Firefox, IceCat, Qupzilla and other browsers, but Chrome is spamming the directory.

Re: [arch-general] Mysterious userapp .desktop files

On Thu, 17 Mar 2016 13:08:50 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >So perhaps launching palemoon does it. No, it doesn't. [rocketmouse@archlinux applications]$ ls userapp-Pale\ Moon-3J36ZX.desktop 'userapp-Pale Moon-3J36ZX.desktop' [rocketmouse@archlinux applications]$ mv -i userapp-Pale\

[arch-general] Mysterious userapp .desktop files

So, somehow my default web browser got changed from SeaMonkey back to Firefox. (Bleh!) I ended up cleaning up after xdg-open in the process of correcting my default web browser. In ~/.local/share/applications/ (where user-customized .desktop files go), there were several files in the format