Bug 1134653

Summary:	xdg-open cannot open virt-viewer connection file with right application over ssh
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	Reporter:	CongDong <codong>
Component:	xdg-utils	Assignee:	Alexander Larsson <alexl>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
Severity:	unspecified	Docs Contact:
Priority:	unspecified
Version:	6.7	CC:	alexl, codong, desktop-qa-list, juzhou, lcui, mzhan, tpelka, tzheng
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Clone Of:	1122447	Environment:
Last Closed:	2014-08-29 08:12:48 UTC	Type:	Bug
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Comment 2 Alexander Larsson 2014-08-29 08:12:48 UTC

I'm not sure what is expected here. xdg-open is a shellscript that tries to figure out the currently running desktop and start the right tool that opens the file on said desktop. If you ssh into a machine then there is no running desktop, so it falls back to the generic handling which gives a different result than the gnome one.

If you want to use the gnome-specific default apps you can directly launch gvfs-open, or you can set the environment variables that the xdg-open shell script looks at so that it picks up whatever desktop environment you want.