Openbox - default applications - mimetype handling

Hi guys,
I use thunar-dropbox which provides the context menu entries.
Two of them are not working properly.
"Browse on Dropbox Website"
"View Previous Versions"
Those functions are supposed to open a new browser window. However on my system nothing happens.
Chromium is set as my default browser which can be proved with xdg-open google.com and opens a new chromium window.
I guess it can be a mime type problem, however I'm not sure what to try out.
Regards
Last edited by orschiro (2011-09-22 06:41:25)

To generalise this a bit more. Not only thunar-dropbox does not open the link in my preferred browser, i.e. chromium, but also other applications such as zim do not open links in chromium.
This must be a special problem related to links.
To recapitulate.
- xdg-open http://google.com opens a new chromium window. works
- exo-open http://google.com opens a new chromium window. works
- chromium-browser is defined as default browser through exo-preferred-applications
- perl-file-mimeinfo is installed
- xdg-settings get default-web-browser reports me
xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment
- I export the DE and BROWSER variable in my .bashrc
export DE=xfce
export BROWSER=exo-open
- As fallback my ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list contains the following entries
text/html=chromium-browser.desktop;
application/x-directory=chromium-browser.desktop
I'm helpless what else to do. So if someone can please explain me the mimetype handling in Openbox. I'm very glad for that.
Regards
Last edited by orschiro (2011-09-23 03:09:44)

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