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No one on earth has so far managed to get xdg default apps work on Linux. I've been failing since 19 years personally. If you've really succeded then congratulations!
Great. I must be living on the moon then. I guess gnome work great there since it manages this part
Nice, but problem with all these AI coded TUI's is we will have hundreds of them, best to stick to the built in linux commands, add aliases/abbreviations (fish) if required, do you need a TUI for everything? Sometimes the answer to "Should I write this?" Is no
Nice, but problem with all these AI coded TUI's is we will have hundreds of them, best to stick to the built in linux commands, add aliases/abbreviations (fish) if required, do you need a TUI for everything? Sometimes the answer to "Should I write this?" Is no
At first I thought it was going to be some kind of solution to force all linux apps to adhere to the XDG Base Directory Specification, until I realized this related to a different specification altogether (XDG MIME Applications specification).
No one on earth has so far managed to get xdg default apps work on Linux. I've been failing since 19 years personally. If you've really succeded then congratulations!
> No one on earth has so far managed to get xdg default apps work on Linux. I've only been using Linux for a few weeks but what am I missing here? I set a bunch of mime types in `~/.config/mimeapps.list` which are assigned to desktop apps and they all open perfectly with `xdg-open` or when I launch them through a file manager. It is documented in the XDG specification https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps/…
There are gotchas, for instance Chrom,{e,ium} insists on XDG_DESKTOP_DIR != XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR.
See this bug report from a confused user: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41076564
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> No one on earth has so far managed to get xdg default apps work on Linux. I've only been using Linux for a few weeks but what am I missing here? I set a bunch of mime types in `~/.config/mimeapps.list` which are assigned to desktop apps and they all open perfectly with `xdg-open` or when I launch them through a file manager. It is documented in the XDG specification https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps/…
For me currently, when trying to open a `text/markdown` file, there's a disassociation between what my file manager (Caja) runs (own bin/emacs script; was under the impression it was auto-creating a .desktop file), what mimeapps.list have (emacs.desktop), and what `xdg-open` runs (Firefox for some reason).
I’d have to look into your specific case but `gio mime` and `gio open` do the right things.
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> No one on earth has so far managed to get xdg default apps work on Linux. I've only been using Linux for a few weeks but what am I missing here? I set a bunch of mime types in `~/.config/mimeapps.list` which are assigned to desktop apps and they all open perfectly with `xdg-open` or when I launch them through a file manager. It is documented in the XDG specification https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps/…
> what am I missing here? There are gotchas, for instance Chrom,{e,ium} insists on XDG_DESKTOP_DIR != XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR. See this bug report from a confused user: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41076564
This isn't an XDG issue. It's a chromium engineers being silly pricks that think they know better than the power users who obviously went out of their way to create such a configuration. Also I bet it would work if you set your XDG_DESKTOP_DIR to ~/Download/
Bravo!
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Great. I must be living on the moon then. I guess gnome work great there since it manages this part
Gnome has done an amazing job at this, I agree. You don't even notice this issue.
Thank god it’s not another React, Solid, Typescript, what have you, web abomination inside the terminal (claude code, opencode, I’m looking at you). Bravo!
the startup time is crazy, you can start writing as soon as you hit the command
(I don't use codex, just noticed that it's crazy fast)