Thanks Josh! That actually did the trick. I got a message that the
mime-support was replaced by a different name, but as soon as I installed
it, VIOLA! Problem solved. Thanks!
On Mon, 7 Oct 2024, Joshua Miller wrote:
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.
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