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jt1122

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Registered: 2021-03-26

Posts: 245

Opening links in different browsers based on url

Hi,

I'm trying to have url links processed by different browsers based on the url, for example:
http://a.com would be opened by chromium
http://b.com would be opened by firefox

I've set xdg-mime to point to a new f.desktop for x-scheme-handler/http and https:
xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http
f.desktop

so f.desktop replaces /usr/share/applications/xfce4-web-browser.desktop:

cat f.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Exec=/home/pc/check_url %U
Icon=org.xfce.webbrowser
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
Categories=Network;X-XFCE;X-Xfce-Toplevel;
OnlyShowIn=XFCE;
X-XFCE-MimeType=x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
X-AppStream-Ignore=True
Name=Web Browser

and in check_url the various checks are done on the url to decide which browser to use.

Opening links from thunderbird works as expected - f.desktop & check_url are executed.

However when I click on a link in the xfce terminal the link simply opens up in the same browser regardless.
In gmail-desktop I get a popup window "Would you like to open the link in the default browser?" .
So in both cases the url handling isn't done with xdg-mime,

How can I have all links (from what ever program) to be handled by xdg (if that's even possible) or is there another way to achieve such url handling?.

Thanks