Additionally, the mime types x-scheme-handler/http and x-scheme-handler/https seem to decide what happens when I click/xdg-open a link - default-web-browser doesn’t appear to influence those.
Today I discovered an awesome alternative to xdg-open:
gio open
From nixpkgs.glib.
With gio open you can open whatever URI you have and you can configure mime types with gio mime. It works pretty reliably and I assume it integrates with Gnome’s default file opener etc.
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It’s worth noting that gio open doesn’t follow the XDG spec. At some point I wasted a lot of time trying to work out some mime issue that bottomed out in the application using the non-compliant glib version.
Hello, I have a bit of code which, by my limited undestanding of nix, should work but I’m stuck at trying to modify mimeinfo.cache.
I cannot read the “current version” of mimeinfo.cache. I haven’t been able to spend more time on this but it seems like mimeinfo.cache isn’t even generated at this point?
Here’s my code so far- [WIP] nixos/open-with: init by SRGOM · Pull Request #88025 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub does anybody have any insights on how to proceed from here.
Basically there are only two more steps:
- Actually read the current
mimeinfo.cache - Actually write it.
(probably 3): more packages in environment.systemPackages.
I would appreciate help here…
Thank you.
EDIT: Forgot link: [WIP] nixos/open-with: init by SRGOM · Pull Request #88025 · NixOS/nixpkgs · GitHub