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From: James Broadhead <jamesbroadhead@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-3.4.5.2: getting LibreOffice Help fails
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:42:14
Message-Id: CA+hid6H4OuzKDsSOMjWpim1NqMkV8W2uE34UOY=DA7SdjtQ6hg@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: libreoffice-3.4.5.2: getting LibreOffice Help fails by Hartmut Figge
1 On 19 February 2012 23:08, Hartmut Figge <h.figge@×××.de> wrote:
2 > Hartmut Figge:
3 >
4 >>But first i should look into that ominous xdg-open.
5 >
6 > 'man xdg-open' didn't help much, but xdg-open is part of xdg-utils. And
7 > there is e.g. xdg-settings. Looking into 'man xdg-settings' and then
8 >
9 > hafi@i5_64 ~ $ xdg-settings --list
10 > Known properties:
11 >  default-url-scheme-handler    Default handler for URL scheme
12 >  default-web-browser           Default web browser
13 > hafi@i5_64 ~ $ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
14 > xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment
15 >
16 > No wonder, there is not such thing as a desktop environment here. Now it
17 > seems that libreoffice assumes that it is run in a desktop environment.
18 > Grmbl.
19 >
20 > Hartmut
21
22 xdg-open is intended to select an appropriate binary using the MIME
23 type of the argument file. In the absence of gnome-open or kfmclient
24 (the KDE equivalent), it's supposed to parse the files in .local to
25 determine what to open.
26
27 If you create an appropriate binding to your browser, that should do
28 the trick (using xdg-mime, which is cumbersome but does the job).