Ralf Horstmann <[email protected]> writes:

> Hi,
>
> xdg-open uses "xdg-mime query filetype" to find out the mime type of a given
> file. Depending on the desktop environment, xdg-mime uses different backends.
> In my case (i3 wm) it falls back to the generic code path, which uses
>
>     file --brief --dereference --mime-type
>
> Since --brief and --dereference are not recognized, xdg-mime returns an empty
> mime type and causes xdg-open to open the given file with a browser instead of
> using the preferred application.
>
> The following patch adds --brief and --dereference to file(1) to address this.

Committed, thanks.

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