alt Hacker News> No one on earth has so far managed to get xdg default apps work on Linux.
I've only been using Linux for a few weeks but what am I missing here?
I set a bunch of mime types in `~/.config/mimeapps.list` which are assigned to desktop apps and they all open perfectly with `xdg-open` or when I launch them through a file manager.
It is documented in the XDG specification https://specifications.freedesktop.org/mime-apps/latest/file....
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sam_lowry_ • yesterday at 6:10 PM
> what am I missing here?
There are gotchas, for instance Chrom,{e,ium} insists on XDG_DESKTOP_DIR != XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR.
See this bug report from a confused user: https://issues.chromium.org/issues/41076564
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For me currently, when trying to open a `text/markdown` file, there's a disassociation between what my file manager (Caja) runs (own bin/emacs script; was under the impression it was auto-creating a .desktop file), what mimeapps.list have (emacs.desktop), and what `xdg-open` runs (Firefox for some reason).