If you don't get a good answer to this, you may want to ask on a Mint support site/list since that seems to be a change between Mint releases. That said, I'd start by trying:
sudo apt install mime-support shared-mime-info I'm not sure if those are the culprit, but that seems likely to me since a lot of the handlers end up using mime types to determine the handler. HTH, -- Josh I. On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 7:58 AM Karl Lindauer via Alpine-info < alpine-info@u.washington.edu> wrote: > > Actually, silly question may you can help me with, loosely related to this > thread. > > I use Linux Mint and Alpine, works fine for years. I recently upgraded > to the newest version of Linux Mint and now Alpine has no idea how to open > any applications on my computer for things like PDF files, image files, > etc. But, the defaults are all set fine on my computer, if I double > click a PDF or image, it opens the correct viewer. Just Alpine seems to > have no idea how to open these files. > > Any ideas how I can fix this? > > Thanks > Karl > > > On Mon, 7 Oct 2024, Rob Wolfconf via Alpine-info wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 7, 2024 at 1:43 AM Karen Lewellen via Alpine-info > > <alpine-info@u.washington.edu> wrote: > >> Perhaps a feature request. > >> Granted I am unsure how Alpine decides what browser is used, as in when > >> one follows a link in an email. > >> Still, I am wondering if the ability to say have more than one option > might > >> be helpful? > >> Especially for Linux users where sites may react oddly to anything that > >> does not look like a windows tool? > >> Just a thought, > >> Karen > > > > Hello Karen, > > > > Chime answered you how to set the browser in alpine using url-viewers. > > Normal user would probably use gnome-www-browser, www-browser or > > x-www-browser, which can be symlinks to specific browsers or to > > xdg-open, which decides itself what application to start, for URL it > > choose some web browser. > > > > As it says "viewers" there can be multiple "browsers" (in fact, it can > > be any program of your choice). Please, use help to see exact syntax. > > You can defined different browsers according to different test > > conditions. > > > > After clicking on the link, alpine choose the first "browser" > > according to conditions. Then you still can edit URL and/or > > application (browser) before starting it. You can create some browser > > wrappers with short names (e.g. ff or chr) which would start firefox > > or google-chrome, so you don't need to write the whole command in > > alpine. > > > > If you are advanced user, you can write your own wrapper script, > > either using e.g. zenity or simple read to select the browser, or let > > script to choose the browser according to URL domain. > > > > Personaly I have script which stores the URL to the clipboard and then > > I can decide, where I want to paste it - in the browser and which > > browser or messaging system or somewhere else. > > > > Alpine is not as simple as thunderbird or outlook are. It requires a > > little bit more knowledge from user but it offers more flexibility > > than thunderbird or outlook. TB/Outlook just start browser on URL > > click. Alpine does the same by default, but you can configure it to > > work according to your needs, but you have to do it yourself. > > > > I believe your "feature request" is already implemented :-) > > > > Regards, > > Robert. > > _______________________________________________ > > Alpine-info mailing list > > Alpine-info@u.washington.edu > > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info > _______________________________________________ > Alpine-info mailing list > Alpine-info@u.washington.edu > http://mailman12.u.washington.edu/mailman/listinfo/alpine-info >
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