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From: Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Gemini protocol mime type
Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2025 21:37:50 +1100
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Davinci <brometeo@gmail.com> writes:

> On 2025-03-31, Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> wrote:

> $ xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler gemini elinks.desktop
>
>> and what happened when you did so?
>
> Nothing different. When I click on a gemini url it is "opened" in firefox, so
> it is not trying the configured elinks.

Click on a gemini url where? In the terminal? In Firefox?

Basically xdg-settings affects the use of xdg-open, and not arbitrary
applications (which might or might not respect XDG settings). Does it
work if you do something like:

$ xdg-open gemini://bbs.geminispace.org/

?


Alexis.