Re: Can't open URLs anymore

Evolution List Owner <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.evolution.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, 2022-09-26 at 12:17 -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
> Just today for the first time, when I click a URL link in the body of
> a message I
> receive, I get error: "Could not open the link: Failed to execute
> child process
> "/usr/libexec/gio-launch-desktop" (No such file or directory).
> 
> I checked, and it's true that there's no /usr/libexec/gio-launch-
> desktop on my
> computer. This symptom just started happening today: Before today
> clicking on a URL
> brought up the URL in Firefox.
> 
> Evolution version 3.44.4.
> 
> How can I start to narrow down this problem?

Try xdg-settings, e.g.:

$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
firefox.desktop

and change it (using 'xdg-settings set ...' if it looks wrong. The
default-url-scheme-handler may also need to be set.

poc
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