Created attachment 910844 [details] A patch to xdg-open which should fix this problem Description of problem: xdg-open uses xdg-mime to decide what application to use for openning a file, if running in a unknown desktop or non desktop based gui environment. In turn because xdg-mime returns name of multiple applications (application.desktop files) if registered to operate on that given type of file in turn in a single line with space used to seperate them. xdg-open tries to use the returned line as it is as a application to open the file, and this fails for the case where there is more than one application registered to operate on a given file type. So in turn instead of using the configured application it uses a browser as the fallback mechanism to open the file. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): xdg-utils-1.1.0-0.24.rc2.fc20.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Have Openbox, evince, gimp installed 2. Run X using startx and a .xinitrc which specifies openbox 3. xdg-open /pathto/file.pdf Actual results: Opens the pdf file within firefox Expected results: Evince should have been used to open the pdf file. Additional info: I have attached a patch which fixes the problem in xdg-open
I think the real problem is that 'xdg-mime query default ...' should never return > 1 entry. I cannot reproduce that case where this can happen. What does this return for you? xdg-mime query default application/pdf
I am not the original submitter, but I have the same problem. $ xdg-mime query default application/pdf evince.desktop inkscape.desktop The "problem" lies in the combination of the default application specification and the mimeinfo cache: $ grep application/pdf /usr/share/applications/defaults.list /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache /usr/share/applications/defaults.list:application/pdf=evince.desktop /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache:application/pdf=inkscape.desktop;evince.desktop;evince-previewer.desktop;calibre-gui.desktop;calibre-ebook-viewer.desktop;gv.desktop;xpdf.desktop;gimp.desktop; The code in xdg-mime queries both at the same time with one grep (line 953 in xdg-mime 1.1.0 rc3) returning above concatenation of evince and inkscape,
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Looks like this is (essentially) a dup of bug #1195718 , but only fixed in f21+ I'll consider an update for f20 too, but I'm a little nervous introducing any regressions this close to eol.
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